Dancer in the Dark

So, it won't let me post the picture, but if you go online and find the album cover for the soundtrack of Dancer in the you'll see a close up view of Selma and it is soo pixelated that it looks blurry or hard to clearly see. She is wearing her glasses and it is titled, "Selma's Songs." This made me ask the significance of vision?

Selma is blind in several senses. She physically can't see but is also oblivious to the world around her. For example, she is oblivious to the director keeping her there (for the police). The other characters, however, see just fine allowing us to SEE her clearly. So what is the significance of her not being able to see while everyone else can?

Marx states, "Therefore we have to grasp the essential connection between this whole estrangement and the money system." Through his essay we see that the worker feels alienated and estranged. The sense of false consciousness adds/helps create this false feeling of alone. We see the other characters see her struggles. We see them be kept at a distance. What is the significance of this distance?

The audience feels detached from Selma just like all the other characters. The movie is filmed making us feel not part of the story, but as a witness to the story. This alienation that she feels seeps into our understanding of her and how we relate to her. The call to arms is to us "witnesses." What is the significance of alienation?

This might be a stretch but Marx says, "the worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object." It seems to me that the object in this movie is not her work (that is a cause of the alienation but not the product) but her son, Gene. She literally gives him all she has. She works and works and saves and saves and even lies for her son. Gene is her product or commodity.