Just got back from seeing Breaking the Waves and most of Dancer in the Dark at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater in Manhattan. I decided to go solo, mostly because neither feature seemed like much of a date movie. However, I do wish I'd managed to have the following exchange with someone:

Hypothetical prospect: So what's Breaking the Waves about?
Me: Well, it's a movie by Lars von Trier about the sweetest, most generous, most selfless woman in the world, and how everything horrible that can possibly happen to a person happens to her.
H.P.: I see. And Dancer in the Dark?
Me: Same thing.