Melancholia (2011)
6/10
I had a different take from the first few reviews. This wasn't about depression.
12 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
It seemed straight-forward. Justine revealed that she knew the planet would hit them. Her physical and mental ailments were her feeling the impending end of everything.

Then it was about people. Just how these specific people cope in the end of earth. It's the end of earth. What is the correct way? There is no correct way, but I guess Justine ended it with love and empathy, to a small degree.

I didn't like it. I don't think it's a masterpiece. I don't think it had anything to say. The music sounded like the soaring music when the two people fall in love in a melodramatic 1940s musical.

Visually, it was absolutely stunning throughout.

It wasn't science fiction, and even if it was, there are far better ones on the science side. It doesn't say anything meaningful about people, because let's hope we're never faced with entire planetary destruction in a single moment like this.

It doesn't say much about people outside of that, except different people have different personalities, which we already knew.

It doesn't say anything about depression, because that's not what it was. Justine told her Mom she was scared, and it had nothing to do with the wedding. She was talking about her fear of the impending doom. Her Mom didn't listen. She wanted to talk to her Dad, who abandoned her. She told Claire she knew the planet would hit. This was not a story about depression.

What did it have to say? I don't know. I got nothing out of it, other than a story about random made-up people, who then all died. End of story.
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