Melancholia (12A)

Those who didn't like this film are those who do not accept or much appreciate the power of a visual medium to tell a story or covey any truth that is not part of a literal narrative. Movies are not books just as bike aren't cars. This isn't to say Von Trier is on to something; only that they can't tell us if he is or isn't. Luc

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I want my 2 hours back!

Very, very seriously, the very worst film I have ever, ever watched. The very worst by far. Having read other comments, I have zero preconceived notions about this director. I have never heard of him before. This film is absolutely the worst piece of garbage I have ever seen in my 45 years of life. No adgenda, no axes to grind, just my honest opinion of the very worst ilm I have literally ever watched in my entire life. I have found amusement and at least some enjoyment in some terrible b movies. This film is quite simply a total and complete waste of film time and actors. If I had paid to see this film, I might seriously have considered suing, it was that appauling and painful to watch. I should be compensated for the couple of hours of my life lost watching this totally shit piece of crap film. If I was not clear.... I think this is among the very worst films ever made. I cannot believe it even made it to the screen.

Worst film ever. It does not even deserve half a star. Depressing, disjointed and fake. I have never experienced worse. Reading "The Woodlanders" was an action packed adventure compared to this atrocity. Zero entertaintment, poetry, point at all. Total rubbish. I thought "Blair Witch" was bad until this.

So, so slow and it is not a matter of 'not getting it', there was nothing to 'get'! Boring and a total waste of 2 hours! The only bit that made me smile was the ending where they were all wiped out, hallelujah!!

Great film, but not a conventional or a feel good film. The characters are not particularly likeable, and the plot is somewhat awkward. This is not intended to make the audience feel good, this is intended to make the audience think. What made this film good was the philosophy behind it and the possible change in ones paradigm that accompanies it. The truth is that we are all alone in some ways and going in separate directions as our fellow human beings. Most of us are in denial of our own deaths, and the inevitable approach of a metaphorical "meloncholia" (death) that is doomed to hit us all. I can imagine people do not like the way this film reminds them of their own alienation and mortality. Not a perfect film, but unique and worth seeing.

Recommended for those who enjoy watching sickly flowers wilt in slo-mo over 90 minutes! Depressed self-involved females may resonate with this film. Schizoid rich males with mid-life crisis should NOT watch this film - Lars portrays the only reasonable character as a coward who would prefers to queitly commit suicide WITHOUT amidst the heavenly scent of horse poo. Because that's what Lars would do - hate and dump his family if the world is ending! What a great mind!

Pretty cinematography. Ugly everything else: unnecessary nauseating shakycam, pathetic characters, phony meaningless monologues as the empty characters pretend to have a dialogue. Lars obviously have serious issue with the entire human race, animals, plants, and mother earth. There is only one clear point he made for this still portrait pretending to be motion picture: Lars is an empty, miserable, SADISTIC man with excessive interest in breasts attached to a boring pale self-destructive cynical woman with little redeeming quality. Waste of time.

Once again those that don't like a film are accused of not 'getting it'. What there is to get is not spelled out. Visual beauty? Yes, but only to underline the corresponding vacuity of content. Badly scripted to the extent of seeming at times like a b-movie. Peoples exchanges didn't sound like natural speech nor were they poetic. A film that signally fails to live up to its organising conceit.