Review of Melancholia (2011) by Anderson G — 07 Oct 2016

A film about the end of the world unlike anything you've ever seen, the end is near, "Melancholia" shows the end of the world following the idea of ??Lars Von Trier, polemical, rude, garrulous, but a spectacular director without aliens, no giant robots or creatures that come from the deep, melancholy is only a planet that is in collision with the earth, we started the film witnessing an extremely troubled marriage with a wealthy but dysfunctional family, Lars Von Trier before speaking everyone will die (please right, do not expect a fairy tale end of a movie Von Trier), he makes us know all the characters and sympathize with them or not.

The first part is focused on Justine (Kirsten Dunst) who makes a good regular performance, and this first part corresponding to half of the film, after 20 minutes is completely drawn, always giving us the same message, is visible that something strange , marriage, party, her husband and the star .

.. and these pillars will be repeating and repeating, in the second part of the protagonist's sister Justine, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who does a good work as always , nothing exaggerated in this second part we all consequences of marriage more the fear of impending death, all the sins of the script in the first parts are offset in the second, which is not perfect, but at least has a rhythm, photography is beautiful Lars Von Trier abusing slow motion, but it can, because he knows how to use, like all his films, the opening scenes are works of art, with a sad and masterful soundtrack, the first five minutes of the film are allah " 200I a space Odyssey ", Lars also writes almost every movie camera in hand, leaving more realistic and poetic.

Finally, we have a great movie science fiction, different, deep (could be more), with scripts and rhythm problems, but it is a film that surprises for the simplicity and in the end, even if not all the reflection that film Lars Von Trier usually cause, when you lie down on the pillow, you will think, think, and think about this film, and in the end, Justine finally finds its slogan "life on earth is evil.

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