"Melancholia": I got emotionally involved . . .

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By the end of the first 20 minutes I wanted to spread their entrails, slash their bodies, tear their hair, set fire to Kirsten Dunst and every member of her totally fruit cake family at her elegant wedding reception. I usually don't get involved like that but these people where awful. It was Part 1. Justine, or known as the wedding reception. I'm not sure what this had to do with the ultimate movement of the film but it was long and gruesome to me. I'm unsure if all this nut case activity was due to the nearness of the calamity or not. Whatever it is I wouldn't want to sit through it again.

Part 2. Claire is about the more sane of sister who is married to a very wealthy Keifer Sutherland. This part of the film gets down to exactly what is going to happen when the planet Melancholia flies by in a near collision path. This is where the tension mounts with Claire and Justine reacts with cool detachment. Sutherland maintains the manly "everything is going to be all right" for the good of his family and son.

I have no idea what Von Trier was trying to say to us. Lost on me. This film would have been better if it were a visual knock out--it wasn't. The soundtrack was the same strains of Wagner over and over. The dialog believable but the story malformed. Von Trier is getting too much free money for his "art".

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Topic - "Melancholia": I got emotionally involved . . . - mr grits 14:40:32 12/09/11 (8)

"the wedding reception... I'm not sure what this had to do with the ultimate movement of the film..." - Revolver66 07:36:32 12/10/11 (5)

Let's us try reality instead of relying on philosophical doo doo. * - mr grits 17:15:45 12/10/11 (4)

OK...Let's try this... - Revolver66 06:25:38 12/11/11 (3)

No thank you, you are working entirely too hard to excuse it.... - mr grits 16:08:08 12/11/11 (2)

OK...Let's try this... - Revolver66 02:53:02 12/12/11 (1)

Eureka! * - mr grits 06:02:46 12/12/11 (0)

I can't believe that release made it down to the hinterlands yet - Road Warrior 15:28:02 12/09/11 (1)

Yer've been warned...let us know what you think. * - mr grits 18:57:36 12/10/11 (0)

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