Dancer in the Dark
Movie • 2000 • Drama
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Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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Wouldn't be a von Trier film without it...
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scene where someone is shot, including blood, but no gore is shown
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Does a head get squashed?
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The protagonist kills someone in self defense by repeatedly hitting him in the face with a metal box.
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Selma has a bag put over her head and screams that she can't breathe
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When the main character is hanged, we get a (brief) closeup shot and graphic sound effect of the rope breaking her neck
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The protagonist is hanged for murder. The hanging itself is very brief, though there is a somewhat graphic sound effect and her dead body is briefly from a distance in a wide shot.
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At the end of the film, the protagonist begins to sing while on the gallows. She is hanged suddenly before she can finish the song. It is very loud and jarring.
At the end of the film, the protagonist begins to sing while on the gallows. She is hanged suddenly before she can finish the song. It is very loud and jarring.
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(Spoiler) when the protagonist is hanged at the end you hear the rope break her neck
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A character considers suicide and backs out, then forces the protagonist to kill him instead.
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The protagonist ends up panicking or screaming in multiple scenes. The acting is very convincing and it is intense and difficult to watch.
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Pretty much the entire movie.
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Not a whole lot. It's done realistically and is not over-the-top.
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A character threatens the protagonist with a gun. She attempts to take the gun away from him and accidentally shoots him. He orders her to kill him and she attempts to comply, but due to being blind, she misses and only further injuries him with the gun.
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