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: Her young son, Gene, has the same condition. Selma is desperately saving every penny for a $2,000 operation to save his vision before he turns thirteen.
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Yet the film condemns such easy consumption. The trial sequence in Dancer in the Dark ruthlessly deconstructs the legal and moral absolutism that condemns Selma to death. She is guilty of manslaughter, but the audience understands her motive as pure love. Similarly, the digital pirate is guilty of copyright infringement, but may be motivated by love of cinema and lack of access. Von Trier offers no comfort to Selma; the final scene—her execution, sung in a whisper—is one of cinema’s most harrowing depictions of state violence. The film suggests that the law is blind in the cruelest sense. Might the same be said of copyright law when it prevents a new generation from engaging with challenging art? : Her young son, Gene, has the same condition