Comments on: Dancer In The Dark (2000)

By: damian

damian — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:16:15 +0000

I think this is a great film. Sure it goes for the heart as subtly as a sledgehammer to the head – but it works. Bjork is wonderful and it affected me deeply.
Second time around it was even worse – I knew what was coming. I have this on dvd and have managed to sit through it fully only 4 times – it just overpowers me. I keep watching a few of the musical numbers every now and again though.

By: punkmachine

punkmachine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Damn another one I missed… Did hear the soundtrack though which is almost as good as the strange jazz album she made with her father

BTW you’re also into vanilla coke? Best thing ever!!!

By: reisneus

reisneus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone’s affected at least a bit by Von Triers drama. It’s simply too extreme. He throws every trick in the book at you multiple times. So you’re bound to go down. When I saw this film, I was really in the mood for it, so it left quite an impression.

I didn’t like the musical parts that much though, they seemed like little Bjork video clips to me. Luckily it didn’t affect Bjorks convincing acting.

Although, I like regular Coke best. For me, Pepsi Lemon beats Vanilla Coke

By: suzero

suzero — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Now you mention the mini-Bj’rk videos, I remember thinking how funny it was that at one stage in D.i.t.D. she’s singing on top of a moving freight train – exactly like that video of her singing on the back of a truck going through New York City.

Lemon Coke sucks. Long live vanilla.

By: reisneus

reisneus — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Right! I hadn’t noticed. Hmm … as a mini-video the freight train sequence was kind of cool. With the hands and all. As ‘stand-alones’, these ‘musical’ elements worked really well.

It’s PEPSI Lemon. I never drink Pepsi, but a team of blond perfect youngsters we’re handing out ice cold Pepsi Lemon cans on a hot summer day in G’tenborg. The word ‘Pleasantville’ came to mind.

By: punkmachine

punkmachine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What in the world is wrong with Bjork videos? I liked em all! Too bad her music has too much of a suck factor

And hell yeah! PEpSi Is OwNeD by ThE VaNiLlA cOkE cRu )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Punkmachine, do you mean ‘all Bjork videos in this film’ or ‘All Bjork videos in general’ ? I like almost all of Bjorks video’s, except the ones in this movie.