Dancer In The Dark

Saw Dancer In The Dark. It was unrelentingly, unreasonably sad. Bjork plays a poor woman betrayed and hurt by her family, friends, self, by her dreams, by her idols, everything. The only glimmers of hope exist to make the despair yet darker. Even the musical numbers have a ghastly quality due to the no-fi Dogme 95 aesthetic. Instead of a pleasant escape, they serve only as a fun-house grotesquery of the pain in the story. The only genuine hope comes just before the ending which is at best grim.

Huge emotional reaction. Never again.