Melancholia

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An interesting new film from Lars von Trier

http://melancholiathemovie.com/

A beautiful movie about the end of the world
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:huh:

A planet hiding behind the sun threatens to collide into the Earth. As far as i can tell from the trailer it's not an Emmerich style apocalypse movie. But it's still interesting that Lars von Trier makes such a movie.

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Two sisters find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/

cast : Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
 
Melancholia by Lars von Trier - Planet X and Earth collide

Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland. The narrative revolves around two sisters in dispute while the life of the planet is threatened as a large foreign body approaches, portending a deadly collision.

The film begins with the destruction of Earth and then jumps back in time.[1] The story will be about two sisters, Justine and Claire (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), who are becoming increasingly more distant from each other.[2] There will be a wedding during the first part of the film between Justine and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård). Soon after the wedding Justine becomes melancholic, which makes her stay calm when Earth is threatened by a collision with another planet that has recently emerged from behind the sun, while Claire, on the other hand, becomes fearful of what is to come.[1] Trier has said that he considers all of his previous films to end happily, and that this will be the first with an unhappy ending.[3]
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From: _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia_%282011_film%29

In the movie trailer, it looks like they are showing electrical discharges coming off objects on the surface towards the approaching planet, which is interesting if you take the electrical discharge theories by Mccanney into account. You can see these electrical discharges at about 1:30 in the trailer:

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6OsQg1wehk

It is also worth noting that the film director Lars von Trier went so much over the top with Nazi jokes during his press conference in Cannes, that he was declared "persona non grata" at the film festival yesterday.
 
Re: Melancholia by Lars von Trier - Planet X and Earth collide

Hi axj for some input on LVT check out this thread
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=13687.0

also there already exists a thread on this movie ;)
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=22812.0
 
Its pretty good, but a bit slow as the movie focuses on a single family and how they deal with the planet. It's also kind of hard to follow the characters as the style of filming and the plot are kind of jumpy without background development.





Spoiler alert!

What I found interesting was that Kirsten Dunst's character was at first going crazy, before they learned more about this planet. It was almost like she knew deep inside what would happen. As soon as it got closer to the event, she became calm and accepting of it (made me think of the C's saying Enjoy the Show). The other female character had it the other way, she was always self calming about the possible effects coming up yet when it was inevitable, she became irrational.

Also what was amazing was that as the planet approached, the power line poles started having electric arcs pointing up in the air. It made me think of the electric universe theory!
 
I haven't watched it but wow, can the Consortium (or underground Aryans) come up with a more obvious movie plot?
Control system misfit (played, unsurprisingly, by the typecast Dunst) turning out "sane" when thinly-veiled Sitchin reference comes colliding, while formerly stable OP "disintegrates" — amidst electric universe cameos which annoy/confuse millions of dirty snowball believers everywhere.
 
I saw this a month ago.
It was certainly a very enjoyable and distrubing movie.

I agree with the previous poster. She knew it was going to happen, and all her focus changed. She wasnt freaked out, but very accepting of her fate as the planet approached.
Also.... it was strange how she was so diff at the start of the movie. If i watched it again i would look out to see if there was a specific time when she was triggered and started pushing her husband (to be) away.
 
**Note: Most of this post contains spoilers**

Truth be told I watched up until about five minutes into part 2 of the movie and turned it off. It was very slow and dark and made me feel very confused and depressed while watching it.

I then read this on Wikipedia:

Trier's initial inspiration for the film came from a depressive episode he suffered and the insight that depressed people remain calm in stressful situations.
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Which basically boils down to what the movie is about - depression. I think that the movie juxtaposed depression with the idea of the world ending. Because in many ways, for people with chronic depression, the disease IS like the end of the world for them.

The cinematography in the movie was very well done, but the plot and characters made me feel very uneasy.

It's no 'feel good' movie and deals with some heavy subjects so keep that in mind if you plan to watch it.
 
Melancholia just came out on Netflix, so I watched it. The overall effect of the movie is quite unique at the end, and I think this is the best thing about this movie.

On the other hand, it is also very slow - I could hardly sit through the first half. It is kind of similar to movies like the original Solaris, which was also artsy and pretty slow.

The other thing I disliked about this movie is the materialistic view of the universe. The girl that has some kind of psychic gift in all seriousness says that life exists only on Earth.

Overall, I agree with people who say that you miss little by skipping the first half of the movie - before the planet appears.
 
Melancholia is standard class movie all the times i have seen it many times on the biggest screen and really it has inspired me a lot.
 
Hi, firzakhan155, and welcome to the forum. :) It's recommended for new forum members to post an introduction in the Newbies forum http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/board,39.0.html telling us how they found the forum and how much of the material they've read. You can take a look to see how others have done it, if you want. It doesn't have to include personal details.
 
SeekinTruth said:
Hi, firzakhan155, and welcome to the forum. :) It's recommended for new forum members to post an introduction in the Newbies forum http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/board,39.0.html telling us how they found the forum and how much of the material they've read. You can take a look to see how others have done it, if you want. It doesn't have to include personal details.
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firzakhan155 is a spammer, we just banned him/her :)
 
Ana said:
SeekinTruth said:
Hi, firzakhan155, and welcome to the forum. :) It's recommended for new forum members to post an introduction in the Newbies forum http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/board,39.0.html telling us how they found the forum and how much of the material they've read. You can take a look to see how others have done it, if you want. It doesn't have to include personal details.
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firzakhan155 is a spammer, we just banned him/her :)
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Doh! I missed that. But with so many eyes here, they don't get too far. :)
 
Saw the movie a few days ago ... was quite impressed by it. Was a bit of a contrast to some of his previous movies.

Very, very slow start, quite symbolic, but hard to understand. Then with time, all the symbols start to make sense and are integrated into the storyline. I liked the part about the bride and groom trying to reach the resort in their stretch limo, that was too long to negotiate the narrow winding road - kind of a symbol of what was to happen at the wedding.

He must have done some research into cometary catastrophe, as he showed many electromagnetic phenomena happing before the cometary impact.

His camera style was a bit tiresome - seems to be shot mainly with handheld cameras, incessantly sweeping from one protagonist to the next and back. Made me at times almost dizzy ...

After this movie it seems to me that LVT is (cinematographically) back on track.
 
Nicklebleu said:
After this movie it seems to me that LVT is (cinematographically) back on track.
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Well he lost track once again, then:

_http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a431937/nicole-kidman-quits-lars-von-triers-real-sex-movie-nymphomaniac.html
 
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