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[[Tear Jerker|Did we mention]] [[Better Than It Sounds/Film|it's a]] [[Musical]]?
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* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: The lawyer presents Selma with a [[Morton's Fork]]: He has proof that {{spoiler|she's innocent}}, but he'll only take the case if she pays him the money {{spoiler|that Bill stole}}.
** Something of a [[Take That]] against capitalism (lampshaded by the prosecutor).
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* [[I Gave My Word]]: Selma's reason for not [[Just Eat Gilligan|Just Eating Gilligan]] (see below).
* [[It Got Worse]]
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]}}: {{spoiler|Selma}}, or [[Mood Whiplash|mid-song]], as it were.▼
* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: If Selma had just revealed Bill's secret {{spoiler|(and therefore tell why she had to kill him), she could've been proven innocent.}}
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* [[Long Take]]: ''all'' the [[Musical]] numbers are shot as a continuous [[Long Take]] using up to [[Camera Tricks|100 stationary cameras]] in Technicolor, then cuts between all the footage generated. The rest of the movie is filmed with [[Art Shift|blurry handheld cameras]] in the style of [[Dogme 95]], to show how the protagonist is going blind and the musical numbers are what she sees in her head. The result is fascinating because you can tell all the footage of singing dancing was taken from multiple odd angles of one single take. (under a desk, atop a railway car, etc.)
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|Low Self Esteem]]: Selma (and how)
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* [[Musical World Hypothesis]]: played with.
* [[Notable Original Music]]
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: English actress Cara Seymour's North American English starts sounding suspiciously Scots-Irish when she gets impassioned in one scene. Possibly averted however by Swedish actor Peter Stormare who, while playing the implicitly American Jeff, doesn't bother speaking with anything but a Swedish accent. ▼
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Joel Grey plays Selma's Czech musical idol.
▲* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: English actress Cara Seymour's North American English starts sounding suspiciously Scots-Irish when she gets impassioned in one scene. Possibly averted however by Swedish actor Peter Stormare who, while playing the implicitly American Jeff, doesn't bother speaking with anything but a Swedish accent.
* [[Serendipitous Symphony]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Soap Opera Disease]]: It is never identified exactly what it is that Selma and Gene have.
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