In this film, the director made the end of the world quite annoying, immersing the anxious conflict between the celebration and the end in a tragic romanticism, the theme of the destruction of the earth, unsurprisingly, did not provide any comfort. Or redemption, it does not contain any meaningful characters or ideas. It is only full of charming sights, brilliant music and inappropriate emotions. It lacks the usual characteristics of the director. It seems to be an ordinary profitable work sold in a store.
The film chooses a relatively ordinary theme of planets hitting the earth, but contrary to the Hollywood model, it focuses more on the fragile bond between the heroine with serious psychological problems and the fragile bond between people after being torn off the fig leaf; the film uses ultra-high-speed cameras to capture The opening scene that arrived was quite shocking and full of alternative aesthetics. Under the almost horrible and tense soundtrack, the audience was enveloped in the pessimism brought about by the end of the day in less than five minutes; the first part of the story has many highlights, but it is also Some of the passages are too unnatural for the audience's unpleasant effects; the second part seems to have some main theme, without a lot of sharp style; the work is not sharp enough in the portrayal of individual characters or events, if it is not for Kiefer near the end of the film The ruthless irony of Sutherland's character, just by the shocking scene of asteroids coming to Earth for the second time, is full of the taste of commercial films.
In the first part of the film, the director did an excellent job of portraying everyone's mouth and face very well. In his presentation, this section suddenly felt various sentient beings. The whole film combines two methods of science fiction and realism, adhering to the director’s personal style of using handheld photography. In these shaking, out-of-focus, and slightly unbalanced shots, the panic and anxiety of human psychology are set off. The director inserted a lot of empty shots that express the mentality of the characters or explain the film in the film. The plot is relatively approachable and easy to understand. At the beginning of the film, the ultra-high-speed photography that is shown in the form of "slow motion" is used with tension. The sharp music presents an alternative beauty. The whole movie is extremely smooth and fully demonstrates the personality of the creator.
Although the story of "Melancholia" is based on the end of the world, it itself is a work that heralds new life and dreams. The plot is a bit boring, and it takes some patience to watch it.
