film review
Melancholia
A rogue planet is bearing down on Earth, and the one person composed about it is a depressed woman, for whom the apocalypse arrives less as revelation than as confirmation. Von Trier elevates depression from a diagnosis into an entire cosmology.
what it left me with
Sometimes the designated pessimist perceives exactly what the optimists cannot bear to examine. Despair, on occasion, is merely honesty in darker dress.
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