Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals...just for a short moment. All happiness life is not able to give her she finds there...

Keywords: betrayal, blind-woman, blindness, capital-punishment, courtroom, czech-immigrant, dancing, daydream, death-row, digital-film

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Selma: In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.

Lines on screen: They say it's the last song. They don't know us, you see. It's only the last song if we let it be.

Selma: I listen to my heart.

Selma: [talking about musical films] You know when the camera goes really big and it comes up out of the roof, and you just know that it's gonna end? I hate that.

Selma: You like the movies, don't you?::Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.::Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?::Bill Houston: Why?::Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.

Jeff: [referring to Gene] Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.::Selma: I just wanted to hold a little baby.

Selma: There's no more to see...

Selma: [singing] This isn't the last song, there's no violin, the choir is quiet, and no one takes a spin, this is the next to last song, and that's all...

Jeff: You can't see, can you?::Selma: What is there to see?

Selma: Clatter, crash, clack, racket, bang, thump rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!