Review of Dancer in the Dark (2000) by Iconicyas — 13 Dec 2021

An amazing film! With Björk's hidden talent of acting, the way she bought Selma jezkova to life and made her character feel substantial is so undoubtedly adequate.

So, I personally do not like musicals but something about dancer in the dark is so appealing to watch, the story about a blind czech woman who tries to save her son from going blind too, aw mother's love, so tragic.

This movie is just depression like fully, sad, emotional and touching. if you didn't feel for selma i'd assume you're an insensitive person.

The icelandic actress put lots of effort and feelings to give us this shy and timid czech immigrant perhaps the total opposite of Björk's personality.

Nonetheless, a great film overall, perfect story, great acting, beautiful songs, And of course a sad ending that would leave you sobbing, for me personally i'd consider it one of the saddest 2000's films, the thing about it that it sort of gets boring in the middle but then suddenly something interesting happens, but anyway it's not an issue since well the plot is so emblematic, the acting makes you sob, and the way the pop star put such emotions into this character is so great even better than that i'm so speechless, I don't know but something about it is real and it still happens in our lives today, where immigrant women suffer a lot, such a human lesson and what a magnificent film overall.