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I appreciate what Bjork and Lars Von Trier were attempting to do with the way they incorporated the musical numbers in this movie, but there were too many detractors:
1. I personally am tired of the current shakey-camera fad. It reminds of TV commercials trying to scare you into buying life insurance.
2. There were too many cheap emotional shots. It's pretty easy to make your audience feel like c**p by having horrible things happen to a pretty, weepy, altruistic, misunderstood female.
3. It was unbelievable in many key places. Do you really expect me to believe that a rather large man needed a gun to take that bundle of cash from a tiny, blind girl? What woman would believe that her son would be more traumatized by knowing that he might go blind someday than he would be by having his mother executed for murder? And why didn't her lawyer (who was willing to take her case for the exact sum that she had saved) refer her to a public defender when she refused to pay? In this country you cannot sign away your rights even if you want to, and there is no way they would refuse a retrial based on new evidence just because the defendant refused to pay. I could go on, but I'm beginning to feel sick, so I'll stop now.
Take my advice: Just download the music videos and skip the movie.
SPOILERS FOLLOW
warning-warning-warning
I appreciate what Bjork and Lars Von Trier were attempting to do with the way they incorporated the musical numbers in this movie, but there were too many detractors:
1. I personally am tired of the current shakey-camera fad. It reminds of TV commercials trying to scare you into buying life insurance.
2. There were too many cheap emotional shots. It's pretty easy to make your audience feel like c**p by having horrible things happen to a pretty, weepy, altruistic, misunderstood female.
3. It was unbelievable in many key places. Do you really expect me to believe that a rather large man needed a gun to take that bundle of cash from a tiny, blind girl? What woman would believe that her son would be more traumatized by knowing that he might go blind someday than he would be by having his mother executed for murder? And why didn't her lawyer (who was willing to take her case for the exact sum that she had saved) refer her to a public defender when she refused to pay? In this country you cannot sign away your rights even if you want to, and there is no way they would refuse a retrial based on new evidence just because the defendant refused to pay. I could go on, but I'm beginning to feel sick, so I'll stop now.
Take my advice: Just download the music videos and skip the movie.