September 8, 2011
There are films that mark you so deeply that it is impossible to get rid of, even if in the end you look little. A reason it would be difficult to say loud and clear: “Me, Dancer in the Dark , I watch at least once a month! “. I have seen only twice in all in all, yet believe me, his mark is indelible.
Written and directed by Lars von Trier , Dancer in the Dark tells Selma Jezkova . She goes blind due to a genetic disease. She saves every penny earned in the factory to pay her child the operation that in turn will prevent blindness. She lives in a trailer located in the garden of an American family. She loves most of all the music and dance … And sometimes, the sounds of machines, which runs a train or a tiny squeal of pencil on paper, it picks up pace and flies in his own musical where nothing serious ever happens. But in the real world, everything is different, the overwhelming misfortune, misery, and the dishonesty of others end up condemning it. To a climax so poignant and know that I still bear the marks imaged around the neck.
No, Dancer in the Dark is not a funny and enjoyable film. It is a wonderfully memorable and moving drama. And all his strength lies in the contrast between the camera’s volatile and dull day, and the rigid, bright and colorful precious moments where music and electrifying dance lyrics yet terribly fatalistic. This boldness is given by the majestic interpretation of Björk , also behind the music, and whose playing and voice transcends any personal emotion to bring to a confusing empathy. The innocence and naivety of the character on the frail shoulders of the Icelandic singer songwriter gives birth to one of the best role ever written and played, in my opinion of course.
The comments about Hitler in Lars von Trier won him being declared ” persona non grata “in Cannes 2011.This same festival in 2000 where he won the Palme d’Or for Dancer in the Dark and Björk the Best Actress. I expected that his Melancholia mad with impatience, despite two lead actresses that I always very difficult to digest: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kirsten Dunst , this is certainly worth to me a bitter taste throughout. But Dancer in the Dark will, beyond all controversy, a masterpiece of drama among the most cleverly written and directed in the history of cinema.
Child, Jimbo is highly intelligent. So that in excess of rage, it triggers in him a unique and dangerous power: the marionnettiser bodies at the expense of the spirits that inhabit them. Adult, he learned to control himself. So with the help of an online game disguised as a test, looking for other children that has the same abilities as him. Five occur and Jimbo decides to meet and offer them a life worthy of their intellectual genius. But when they meet in Central Park, the Five were brutally assaulted and intimately. The psychological scars that leave home and this event will grow to hate and revenge … all the harmful things that they think deserve it. And Jimbo must choose sides.
The Prodigies is experienced. And if it modernizes / aestheticizes / delayed the work must- Bernard Lenteric , it is certainly not the degrading. Rather, it is a very honorable tribute, even if no formal need to know to get the novel to film. I particularly liked the way the report is discussed between the impulsive and irresponsible child and resentment, which is imaged or exacerbated his vision of wickedness and cruelty of the other. I found really striking is revealed how the concept of sensory minds connected. I was captivated by the emotional intensity generated by revealing scenes of pain or hate the characters. For an animated film fantasy genre, this type of empathy is rather unexpected. Here it is very relevant. I keep still a slight regret about the presence of undeveloped characters, especially among the Five : Sammy the plump and Lee ‘s Asian, which draw beyond an angry grimace, not finally great impact on the scenario.
Thanks to the work of the facilitator Aton Soumache ( Renaissance ), The Prodigies offers a graphic somewhere between video games and comics. Aesthetic identity of its own and finally in total correlation with its subject. If at first the style may seem simplistic, it is actually original, intelligent and highly significant, almost symbolic. This feeling of anger that dominates the storyline is well transcribed on frozen faces but often terribly expressive.Violence, enhanced by a soundtrack excessive and eloquent, is treated intensively, where a more polished graphical format would, I think, mitigated these moments of climax oppressive and very cleverly done.
The Prodigies is much more interesting than it seems. Be careful not to put all hands, especially the younger ones. Despite appearances, are treated well by the man in all his physical and psychological brutality, as opposed to superman in all his denigration of people he considers inferior.