Melancholia the movie review
Melancholia The movie Review
Rollercoaster ride
To some, this movie may be one’s vision of apocalyptic theories or a big bang bound to happen or a grandiose of colliding planets and personalities. One thing is certain, this movie will take you on a rollercoaster ride of psychological highs and emotional lows. The end of the world is hard enough to think about, but Lars Von Trier isn’t afraid to explore his imaginative possibilities.
According to Sigmund Fraud, Melancholia is described as “a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment.”
Freud’s definition definitely describes the mental state of Kirsten Dunst as “Justine” in the movie. She is a woman who has a history of stifling with depression. She completely acts like Jekyll and Hyde at her over the top wedding and threatens her chance at ever having happiness in the future. One minute she would be happy and the next minute she would be angry or depressed at her own wedding. Her attitude and actions appear to be confusing to her new husband, Michael played by Alexander Skarsgard and her sister, Claire played by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Justine is the total opposite of her sister. One is grim and overwhelmingly authoritative while the other is overwhelmingly cheerful and spontaneous when she isn’t depressed.
The arrival of the planet Melancholia changed the entire make-up of life, as they knew it. In the other half of the movie Justine’s mental psyche was ironically more stable of the idea of earth’s annihilation than Claire’s. Nicely enough, during wedding the desolation, the big bang was the attitudes and collision of the colorful characters’ personalities. The movie is filled with melodrama, sexual exploration, dysfunctional families and
Rollercoaster ride
To some, this movie may be one’s vision of apocalyptic theories or a big bang bound to happen or a grandiose of colliding planets and personalities. One thing is certain, this movie will take you on a rollercoaster ride of psychological highs and emotional lows. The end of the world is hard enough to think about, but Lars Von Trier isn’t afraid to explore his imaginative possibilities.
According to Sigmund Fraud, Melancholia is described as “a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment.”
Freud’s definition definitely describes the mental state of Kirsten Dunst as “Justine” in the movie. She is a woman who has a history of stifling with depression. She completely acts like Jekyll and Hyde at her over the top wedding and threatens her chance at ever having happiness in the future. One minute she would be happy and the next minute she would be angry or depressed at her own wedding. Her attitude and actions appear to be confusing to her new husband, Michael played by Alexander Skarsgard and her sister, Claire played by Charlotte Gainsbourg. Justine is the total opposite of her sister. One is grim and overwhelmingly authoritative while the other is overwhelmingly cheerful and spontaneous when she isn’t depressed.
The arrival of the planet Melancholia changed the entire make-up of life, as they knew it. In the other half of the movie Justine’s mental psyche was ironically more stable of the idea of earth’s annihilation than Claire’s. Nicely enough, during wedding the desolation, the big bang was the attitudes and collision of the colorful characters’ personalities. The movie is filled with melodrama, sexual exploration, dysfunctional families and