Melancholy is the exhaustion of the loss of divinity

Emmie 2022-04-22 07:01:19

Lars Fonti has always been my favorite director of genius, and maybe his psychological narrative is just right to my liking, but it may be too much for others. From psychiatric hospitals, to dark dancers, to melancholia, he is at least a very unique, regional genius.

It is said that he himself suffers from depression. At least he captured the most essential psychology of the melancholic. Fighting alone, making non-collapse attempts over and over again, in some ways, they even seem impeccable. They think of themselves as a person and delusions of being alone against failure. Only the moments before death can truly awaken the melancholic. Some people can resist the past, some people can't, they choose to break. This last-ditch thrill of fighting fire with fire might make them wink. That is, realizing that others are acting on their own needs, not dying of exhaustion.

Justin's melancholy is the melancholy of justice and divinity, and the melancholy that comes when people think they should do something, but they find they are powerless. People don't think they should make a difference, they don't think they have the nobility of the gods, and they don't get tired.

As everyone knows, starting from Kafka, the beginning of the so-called nightmare of a person's so-called modern life is the opening of the door to melancholia. Man has lost his divine self, moving and performing on a globalized stage like a zombie. Such exhaustion is inexplicable.

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Extended Reading
  • Garry 2022-01-28 08:02:42

    This is an overly personal video chatter. The narrative part is broken and boring, but the static images are strange and charming; the character is focused on, but the price of the lack of cause and effect is the distance between the characters and the emotions. The style is strong, but not touching.

  • Paris 2022-03-22 09:01:43

    There is the usual depression of Lars von Trier movies, but I always feel that it is a bit far-fetched to put melancholia in such an environment as the end of the world. The photography and soundtrack are very good, and the plot is much weaker than before.

Melancholia quotes

  • John: Those bitches have locked themselves in their bathrooms and now they're taking a bath.

  • [last lines]

    Justine: [to Leo and Claire as Melancholia approaches] Hold my hand. Close your eyes.