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Post by dirtypillows on May 26, 2019 10:57:00 GMT
I saw the film only once. So, a second viewing might bring forth a new perspective. Her death scene was horrifying, there is no getting around that. And the plot, well, you made it sound more interesting than I did. And I know her son was the most important thing in her life, but didn't she also kind of screw that up for him by her badly informed choices? I don't know if I will see it again or not. I remember it was extremely depressing. And I didn't like "Breaking the Waves", for its extreme bleakness. I guess it must be Bjork herself, with her trademark sound that sounds like nails on a chalkboard being the thing I remember the most. The two girls I was with were crying by the end, too. I quite liked the sound of the score Bjork composed for the film and the songs were abstract different in her own unique style. I just feel it worked all so well and I don't think her character was capable of making the decisions that we might see as common sense. Selma was really not of this earth and more pure and that was part of the point. Breaking The Waves was bleak, but Emily Watson was fascinating and kept me intrigued and similar with her character as well.
I have seen DITD a few times and own two copies on dvd.
Well, if I had seen the movie from some of this POV, I am sure I would have been kinder in my assessment. No, she didn't seem capable of making the "common sense" decisions. (I just kept thinking "tell the truth! they are going to kill you!") Do you think, Toasted Cheese, that her character was, more or less, happy at the end? Her boy was going to eyesight preserved, yes? So she would have been happy about that. I cannot remember a lot of the details.
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