Dancer in the Dark... I now hate Lars Von Trier with a passion; his films are beautiful and the acting is wonderful, but the stories are pointlessly depressing with little to no symbolic or allegorical purpose, and he destroys all his female characters (which I honestly think is part of his anger towards his late mother, who revealed on her deathbed that his biological father isn't the one he grew up with.) He's gotten slammed by critics and was even kicked out of the Cannes festival for making anti-semetic jokes.
...Oh yeah, but about the film. Bjork plays a single mother named Selma who moved to the States to have the opportunity to get surgery for her son; he has a genetic disease that runs in her family that causes blindness. She works at a factory night and day to save up money, while she goes blind herself, and this one guy falls in love with her and starts following her around all the time... She goes insane from the stress and daydreams herself into musicals constantly. The film does not end well, I'll say that much. Gods, I hate Lars Von Trier.
