Just watched "Dancer in the Dark"

Just watched "Dancer in the Dark" Nov 7, 2019 17:21:33 GMT via mobile

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Post by movieliker on Nov 7, 2019 17:21:33 GMT

Nov 7, 2019 12:00:37 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

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.

Most people --- especially the mentally challenged --- are going to be vulnerable to the criminal justice system unless they have a good or decent defense attorney.

This depiction is not a credible critique of the American criminal justice system. You are supposed to get a defense attorney. Hopefully a good one.

And most prosecutors would not go for the throat with a sympathetic victim like the one Bjork was portraying.

How can an exaggerrated depiction of the American criminal justice system be a credible critique?

It's more an illustration of an agenda, based on the unfair bias of the film makers.