Kazhes pierakstu burtnīca

One of the films of Lars fon Trier about America. Selma is a Czech woman that has left her socialistic country somewhere in the sixties for America where she needs to find enough money for an operation for her son which would allow him not to go blind as she already is losing her eyesight. She has already got close to what she needs when a neighbor of he (in whose trailer she lives - and pays the rent for it, of course) tells her that he`s got a lot of debts that not even his wife knows about and that he`s close to suicide. Selma on the other hand tells him as the only living soul about her eyes and her son`s problems. The neighbor tricks Selma and finds where she hides the money for the sons operation, afterwards he steals the money from her and Selma is forced to kill him in order to regain her money for she has no chance to prove that it`s her money really. In the end she is executed by hanging. The film is very dark and depressive, it`s partly a weird musicle where Bjork plays the title role. Certainly the film is good, but not as good as "Dogville".