A movie

Dancers in the dark, I have seen, um, very touching, right? I saw it a few years ago. Because she killed a policeman by mistake and she was an immigrant, she was treated unfairly by the judiciary. She finally sang in the dark, showing her longing for life and her innocent heart.

It reflects the cruelty of reality and the evil nature of so-called democracy in American justice. But she was hanged anyway.

Dancer in the Dark

Director: Lars von Trier

Starring: Catherine Denov of bjork, david morse.

Production company: Norwegian AV Fund (Denmark)

In 2000,

On the film: Selma's eyes will be blind soon, and she is trying to hide it because she is afraid of losing her job. For her, it is her biggest dream to continue working, save enough money to operate on her son and get rid of the fate of hereditary blindness in her family.

The vague sight didn't stop her from searching and working hard. Even if she is unlucky, she is still singing and laughing in her own world ... She was fired from the factory because of her eyes, and her neighbors stole the money she had saved. Most unfortunately, she was sentenced to death for recovering the lost money and injuring the thief by mistake.

Searle is not afraid of death. For her, if her children are no longer blind, there will be laughter even in heaven.

Every step before hanging is a memory of life, full of love, dignity and dreams, until the last sound.

Bad luck always breaks people's beautiful lives, and Selma defends her last space with a quiet heart. Even in the face of a bigger nightmare, she still built her beautiful and simple dream on bad luck.

Because, she has great selfless love that only mothers have.

Watching Dancer in the Dark somehow reminds me of the title of Haruki Murakami's novel, Norwegian Forest, The End of the World, Cold Wonderland and Dance! Dance! Dance! "From bjork's little face, which is separated and permeated with Nordic temperament, the forest, rain and nature are permeated with natural breath. Dancing in Selma is actually just a daytime imagination. In reality, she gradually lost in the darkness. Although her inner light and hope shine in the dark, she can't escape the tragic fate.

This is a story that makes people cry easily, although you know it's sensational.

During the period of 1995, several members of the dogma group headed by Lars T. Feng put forward the "Doctrine '95 Declaration", aiming at all kinds of disadvantages in modern film shooting methods and their own image principles, and put forward the discipline of film shooting. Almost all these subversive commandments are anti-traditional, such as giving up the fixed tripod, using hand-held photography, real-life shooting, not using music, having modern themes, and the director's name not appearing in the subtitles. There is also the following statement:

I further restrain my personal taste as a director! I'm not an artist anymore! I swear not to create "works" again, because I think the moment is more important than the whole. My highest goal is how to squeeze out the truth from people and scenes. I swear to do my best to give up any good taste or aesthetic considerations to achieve this goal. Many critics spoke highly of their films and subversive precepts, and some even asserted that the film innovation movement initiated by this film group will be the most important film movement since the new wave in France, and its influence will have a great impact on the film trend in the 2 1 century.

"Dancer in the Dark" provides an opportunity for the nitpicker: the exquisiteness of a long song and dance seems to be in contrast with their 95 movie code. Also, article 6 of the declaration mentions that superficial action scenes are not allowed in movies. No murders, weapons, etc. ), but Selma killed the police not only for a long time, but also with more than one weapon. For dogma'95, the beginning of subversion is innovation, and to some extent, it is time to subvert itself. The charm of a movie really can't be finalized by shaky hand photography.

In the other two novels of Lars von Thiel's conscience trilogy "Breaking the Waves" and "Idiot", stylization and the combination of story and image are more in line with their declaration and style, while in Dancer in the Dark, the dramatic plot seems to have lost its image style to some extent, and its outstanding feature is that it can be used to make a musical-documentary and ordinary description. The director himself described it as "a large-scale popular drama that collided with realistic incentives".

In the description of Selma's real life, there is a kind of bitterness besides exquisite singing and dancing. When she groped her way home along the railway, there was an almost satisfied smile on her face, which was a desire to get closer and closer to hope. Recalling the last paragraph of The Shawshank Redemption, Rhett, who was released on parole for 40 years, went to find his old friend Andy. She felt nervous for the first time, because there was hope in her heart, and Selma gave people the feeling. However, in the long night, her longing for the dawn is in a forbearing and implicit way. The world in singing is a bright color beyond her gloom and despair: going to the cinema to see a Broadway black-and-white musical is actually invisible. She relies on "listening" to her friends to explain, and even goes to local clubs along the railway to participate in the rehearsal of the musical "The Sound of Music". A single mother, unwilling to repeat the tragedy, tried her best to create it when she was on the verge of darkness, so as to avoid the despair hanging over her closest relatives. Watching her wear the same clothes every day and grope along the railway to the factory, and then grope to put the iron sheet on the die-cutting machine. The echo between the depression of life and passion makes you tremble slightly. "In our dark loneliness, there is a light/this light makes us miss the darkness/this light disturbs our illusion/before the dawn decides our nothingness." My favorite poet Mu Dan wrote a poem more than 50 years ago, which so aptly expressed Selma's feelings.

Selma's despair never showed. She always smiles normally, and occasionally despair brushes her face, which is a kind of comprehensiveness under the broken. But when she found that the money she had accumulated for a long time was gone, all her hopes were gone, and despair gripped her tightly, and even she became a murderer crazily. When death became silent, Selma returned to her original state. She groped to wash her hands by the river and went to the hospital to pay her son's prepaid medical expenses. Then quietly go to the club to attend the final rehearsal. When the tragedy was coming to an end, Selma struggled painfully because of her nostalgia for life. For example, john murphy, who has special functions in Miracle in the Green, asked to take off his black mask when executing the death penalty because he was afraid of darkness. Selma, who was almost blind, also had the same panic. This panic is unbearable. Finally, she suddenly fell from the song and died, and the song suddenly stopped, becoming more and more cruel.

The incitement of the story lies in the sadness between the bright imagination and the stagnation of reality. Selma's song can go straight to the sky and even illuminate the end of the world, but when it falls, it is endless darkness and sadness. About the imaginary song and dance, every paragraph is beautifully shot. I especially like the one on the track. Selma danced with the happy men around her in her imagination. At this time, the train slowly passed by Yuan Ye, and men and women in country clothes were singing and dancing. Everyone is immersed in it, and his face is full of happiness and vitality. As soon as they reached the imaginary paragraph, the light and color began to change and appeared around them. All the light became crystal clear, and Selma's usually gloomy green skirt became bright. In court, including when she was on the gallows, she imagined that everyone, including judges and executioners, had forgotten everything and just danced. In an unrealistic state, the whole court is like a heresy, with a fairy tale color, which reminds people of the miracle created by Andersen, the hometown of Lars Vontler.

Selma's imagination is the fantasy world of a little girl selling matches: all the cold faces are filled with happy smiles, and all the stiff postures have become smart dances. I like this imaginary world, which is hard to find even at the end of the world.

Thinking of another movie full of songs, Australia's Amy's World, the little girl Amy witnessed her father's death with her own eyes, which caused her psychological trauma. A few years later, she moved to the city. My mother learned from the male neighbor who knows music that her daughter can communicate with others by singing, but there are still obstacles in the dialogue, so various songs appeared on the screen. Everyone who wants to talk to Amy must sing loudly. Neighbors, policemen and psychologists sing with beautiful girls of different degrees. Therefore, singing and humor go hand in hand in the film, and the little girl's children's voice sings beautifully. Amy's world went from dim to bright, Dancer in the Dark went from bright to dark, and her passion was released through development and restraint.

I think of my childhood infatuation with dancing, a series of messy memories, the closed door, the sleeping grandmother who can be seen in the crack of the door, the waving of those scarves and the hasty packing, closing the door and experiencing the taste of dancers in the dark. And, dreaming unrealistic dreams, maybe everyone, especially girls, will have such a past.

Or Mu Dan's Chapter Two of Qi Shen: If we can see him/if we can see him/what we didn't expect when we were children/and then stay away, but that's all the efforts of adulthood/what we can't find/if all the dignity and splendor in the world are given by our one-sided glance/if we see him/in the last layer of laughter behind laughter and crying-

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