Naive, sentimental and compelling. "Dancer in the Dark" may be a picture you don't want to see again, but it's something you will never forget. Be it Von Trier's obsessive technical approach, musical homage or depth of emotion, "Dancer" is something not to miss. It's similar to those horror pictures where we say, "don't go in that door", but here we say, "please stop being so cruel or even so innocent." It's not framing, it's "pointing", as Von Trier has stated. And with pointing we see something beyond cinema and motion pictures. Even in a surreal, dream-like world, we are truly captivated and tortured. From "Zentropa", to "The Idiots", to "Dogville", to "Breaking the Waves", and even his most recent "Anti-Christ", we see something absolutely humane in Dancer. It's something many directors vow or wish they could create and never will. Worth every minute and even a second look.
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