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Post by movieliker on Jul 3, 2019 17:49:20 GMT
Wow. Starring Bjork and Catherine Deneuve.
Consistent with most reviews this movie is unrealistic. Bjork's character (Selma) and her want-to-be boyfriend are obviously mentally challenged.
Selma is going blind. Her son has the same genetic defect. She is saving her money to pay for an operation that will save her son's eyesight.
Bjork did a good job of acting. Seemingly the point of this film was to be gut wrenching emotionally. And a political statement about the US position on capital punishment.
My fear is the young and dumb will watch this and arrive at erroneous positions off a movie that is unrealistic. But the young and dumb are always most vulnerable to bad information.
SPOILERS!!!
There was no pretrial discovery done. Selma had the worst defense attorney who did literally nothing. And Selma stupidly refuses to tell the truth based on a promise she made the man who stole her money. She refused to deny a made up affair. Inspite of the man lying about her. Easily could have gotten off on a self-defense claim, or at least complete transparency.
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Post by nostromo on Nov 7, 2019 12:03:52 GMT
It's one of only about 20 movies that I have ever given 10 out of 10 for. And I normally despise musicals
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Post by movieliker on Nov 7, 2019 17:21:33 GMT
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. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 8, 2019 19:59:40 GMT
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. 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. You brought your parents to see DITD. That was novel and optimistic thing for you to do. My parents would not have gotten it, either. Especially, my dad. He would have been confused from the beginning. As it is, I went with two girl friend co-workers. They were both very maternal, nurturing types and they were both bawling at the end.
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Post by Pangolin on Nov 12, 2019 13:40:11 GMT
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. 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. haha, cute. 
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