Post by dirtypillows on Nov 8, 2019 19:59:40 GMT
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.
It was set in the 60's I think. There would have been a lot of prejudice towards immigrants as well, but Selma was also gentle blind woman who got taken advantage of. She was not a career criminal, nor was she a dangerous threat to the community. This was all very obvious. That she refused speak the truth—and in the point of the film, this was to protect her son—it still came across as very far-fetched, even her own predicament. Von Trier perhaps tried to mask this by making the film look realistic with his guerrilla technique to filming. That said, for me, it still doesn't diminish the emotional impact of how this film makes me feel.
I attempted to show my parents, but they couldn't buy into it. They only watched about 20mins. They thought Bjork, they didn't know who she was, was a kid herself and was too young to have her own child and that it was filmed by children, due to the jerky camera work in some scenes.