Audio Reviews - Melancholia - Audio Review

Tags:  movie review, audio, spill, spill.com, melancholia, kirsten dunst, kiefer sutherland

• 
  

  February 13, 2012 at 12:30 AM, said ...

  I just saw this film, and I love the final scene of this film.

• December 15, 2011 at 6:59 AM, said ...

  I have been putting this off for so long,I might have to finally visit TPB :p

  
  
• 
  

  December 15, 2011 at 2:37 AM, said ...

  @Anjelika Rex I hear you. Last year I was in a very intense relationship. We were talking about marriage and it was so insane how we both acted based on these fairy tale expectations of how love should be. Nothing is wrong with monogamy or "true love" or whatever, but marriage? Marriage is just a BFF contract, written with unicorn blood on communion wafer paper, where you do a little voodoo with a judge or pastor and sail off into the sunset. Just another  Santa Claus pet-rock snake-oil, to lubricate the money machine of this predatory biological economy of life. Sorry. This movie really affected me. I really identified with the Dunst character.

• November 28, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Angi Cornelius said ...

  As someone who was practically tossed down the aisle by her friends and family when she was not ready emotionally or mentally, I totally agree with Leon.  I was dealing with an intense and traumatic breakup when I met my now ex-husband.  At the time I was feeling extremely down on myself for first falling for an asshole and then getting dumped by him.  The three years of commitment uncertainty coupled with a breakup bombshell on Christmas day destroyed me. Fast forward to two months later when I met my husband.  He doted on me, followed me around like a puppy dog, was completely devoted to me.  After a year he proposed.  My friends and family pretty much had me convinced that he was perfect for me in every way...except that I didn't love him.  Everyone kept telling me what kind of catch he was, so I forced myself to stay with him; if everyone else thought he was quite the find, then what the hell was wrong with me?  I questioned everything even on my wedding day when I was set to walk down the aisle, which I did because everyone was there including a special musician who had flown in from New York.  The wedding was beautiful and memorable even though I knew it was wrong.

  I finally asked for a divorce in August of this year, just short of our three year anniversary.  My friends knew of my depression after my previous breakup but felt that the attention of my husband would cure it.  Many issues involving my relationship with him I still have not brought to light to them because they hold him in such high regard, the issues being his immaturity, poor money management and my general just not being attracted to him.  The result of such pressure to do, as Leon pointed out, "what is supposed to make you happy" has left a string of broken hearts behind on both ends.  I ended up hurting someone who did not deserve this due to peer pressure and in turn I feel like the biggest bitch on the planet for letting the relationship go on in the first place.  In the end I wasn't true to my own emotions, difficulties, trauma and healing process which is probably the biggest lesson that could be learned from all of this.

  I love von Trier and am looking forward to seeing this movie, but it's going to be a long time before I do so.  It just hits way too close to home for me at the moment.

  
  
• 
  

  November 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM, said ...

  This was on the marquee of my local cineplex.

   

  

• November 24, 2011 at 4:25 AM, PC_Load_Letter said ...

  I've seen von Trier's entire library.  I love Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves.  This movie didn't work at all, on any level.  Trust me.

  
  
• 
  

  November 24, 2011 at 12:43 AM, said ...

  I literally only found out about this guy through this review. My interest in seeing his films are pretty high right now.

• November 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM, said ...

  And I qoute "Yeah she's a depressed bitch who makes everybody else around her miserable, but sometimes she's naked"  It says it right under the movie title, so yeah Korey we know what you're talking about.  By "we", I mean those of us who can read.

  
  
• 
  

  November 23, 2011 at 2:06 AM, said ...

  I have anxiety and am on the fast track to depression. I'm not taking any chances by watching this movie

• November 22, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Joanne said ...

  I was curious of the story, so I went and read the details. As someone who has suffered from depression, this just sounds way too maudlin/heavy for me. I don't think I would ever watch it. Not that I wouldn't watch dramatic peices, and some of the visual imagery in this film look stunning. However, it just seems so relentlessly depressing.

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 8:48 PM, said ...

  I had to look up the movie this reminded me of, that Another Earth film. But this sounds right up my alley, really. I do like Lars von Trier's movies, and dark films in general.

• November 22, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Jak Tragedy said ...

  Thank you, @Calvin!

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 8:29 PM, RabidScotsman said ...

  I completely disagree. This film was wonderful piece of cinema that gripped me at every turn.

  Here's my review.

  http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/melancholia-review

• November 22, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Amelia said ...

  This movie might be interesting for the artsy side of it, but I really don't like the director. I appreciate Leon's insight on depression. That is a serious illness that can be so bad the super happy events like a wedding would only make the depressed person feel worse because they know they're supposed to feel happy but they just can't. If it's severe depression the chemicals in the brain are seriously out of whack. If a chronically depressed woman comes off like a bitch she seriously can't help it. Only medication or ECT could help with the symptoms.

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 5:13 PM, said ...

  Lars Von Trier.

   

  Evangelion.

   

  Make it so.

• November 22, 2011 at 4:48 PM, ruben richardson said ...

  Kirsten Dunst always reminded me of an old woman trapped in an o.k. looking young girl.

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 2:55 PM, ghostwriter said ...

  Please....Tell Some Jokes!!!!!

• November 22, 2011 at 2:50 PM, tamely said ...

  Depression isn't entertaining to watch or feel. Who would of thought ?!

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, said ...

  Here ya go Cyrus! 

  Kirsten Dunst

  For your desktop.

• November 22, 2011 at 1:07 PM, said ...

  Glad the way Leon mentioned Depression as an illness. Its generally not about just 'getting your head together', it's not that easy.

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Robert Michel said ...

  Holy shit! Kirsten Dunst gets naked in this film? Full price!

• November 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Attila Kozmóczki said ...

  I hate this movie, call me cave man but this movie was so slow... It was frustrating to watch this artsy fartsy film... Yeah! Probably critics and the art house crowd will eat this up...

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Valo Palomares said ...

  @Markunator

  Yeah but Mark Kermode also hates the original Star Wars films and said that the Exorcist was his number 1 film.

   

  Also. 83% actually liked it: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breaking_the_waves/

• November 22, 2011 at 10:10 AM, said ...

  So you loved Breaking the Waves, did you, Cyrus? Huh. Mark Kermode has called that movie "one of the worst films of the last 25 years" and "a really nasty film". To each his own, I suppose. 

  
  
• 
  

  November 22, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Valo Palomares said ...

  Did Cyrus say "I can't give a blank check to someone with poor brain chemistry."? It's clearly a mental disorder considering the mom has a similar illness and sometimes, the medication can't help. My dad's a clinical psychologist and he's had numerous clients that still wouldn't get out of that psychotic stage simply with medication. Medication in and of itself cannot solve every personality disorder. It usually takes loads of therapy on top of that. 

  And still, we don't know if she is on medication. Or even if anyone else is willing to acknowledge that she has anything. Lots of cases of depression go undiagnosed so the rest of her family could possibly be trying their best to deny it's existence.

  At the very least, she's in a state that's very sympathetic to me. I'm sorry Cyrus. Usually I agree with you, but this time. Boy oh boy do I disagree with you.

Post Comment