Just watched "Dancer in the Dark"

I really like this film, despite its unrealistic, exaggerated and biased approach to Selma's story to win her audience sympathy. I can understand why some hate on it, but I still find it to be an emotional powerhouse and much of that is due to the performances. I got sucked in by it and the unscrupulous cruelty of how the legal and justice system was represented, which does play games with people lives just to prove a self-aggrandizing point to its peers. The film still has plenty of humanity coursing through it.

I recall when this was released and 2 popular t.v. reviewers on their show were at loggerheads with each other due to the extreme end of the scale of how they rated. One at the highest, the other at lower than low giving it zero stars.