Post by dirtypillows on May 25, 2019 17:31:29 GMT
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned "Dancer in the Dark" (2000)... The "musical" numbers are all violently shrieky, the storyline is pathologically depressing and Bjork (whom I cannot stand anyway, she is not my taste in music, not to mention people) is playing a character who is soooo dumb or ignorant, almost to the point of being stubborn about how dumb she is, and she makes terrible life decisions, which (SOILERS AHEAD! SOILERS AHEAD!) .....
...... cause madcap Bjork to act according to her very own worst interests; and also there is some curious element of perversion going on here, as she is unable or unwilling to even take the slightest step to defend herself when she is on trial for her life. Bjork played her character like a slightly crazed martyr who lived in a world of (very bad) songs, and at a deeper level, she almost seemed to get off on having an extremely terrible and sad life. What a bad idea for a movie. I hated this movie. There was nothing about it that I liked, though I was grateful whenever she wasn't singing.
...... cause madcap Bjork to act according to her very own worst interests; and also there is some curious element of perversion going on here, as she is unable or unwilling to even take the slightest step to defend herself when she is on trial for her life. Bjork played her character like a slightly crazed martyr who lived in a world of (very bad) songs, and at a deeper level, she almost seemed to get off on having an extremely terrible and sad life. What a bad idea for a movie. I hated this movie. There was nothing about it that I liked, though I was grateful whenever she wasn't singing.