August 9, 2024 • 14 mins
Lars von Trier is a controversial filmmaker with his work and as a person himself. Due to his depression that, he creates films with dark characters with, sometimes, dark storylines. But his films are great. Some are beautifully shot with referneces to classical art. This film "Melancholia" is one of those. It's about the last days of the world due to a planet that is literally going to crash into Earth and the main character welcomes with open arms. It's more dramatic than how it sounds but it's there and it's in full effect. The film is great for its cinematography, how Earth plays a role as a planet that is dying by the frame and we get to see characters go through it. We see characters that represent illnesses such as depression and anxiety. The film highlights and sometimes makes it very visually poetic.I love the fact that Trier made a film like this and it's not overdramatic. Overall, it's a dark and straight-in-your-face type of filmmaking that anybody can appreciate.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Morning. This is Morning Real, hosted by Ray Salazar,
by Seid I review it, and that is a loud
car going through this block right now. Anyways, sounds like
that don't make me depressed. But there are movies I
pretty much kind of get you in the place of like, man,
(00:22):
I'm depressive, but I'm not that depressive. Anyways, I want
to talk about this film. It's a pretty good film. Man.
It's by Lars von Trier. He's a very controversial filmmaker.
Not necessary well not necessarily well, yeah, you know what
it is. Some of the films, some of the films
that he does are like really extreme. Some of it
(00:45):
are very violent and it just kind of goes into violence.
But outside of the camera, outside of the set, the
man himself, he's a very controversial figure because he'd be
saying some out loungdish stuff about stuff. You know, like
you have to like research about this guy to know.
But honestly, as a filmmaker, I love his work. He's
(01:08):
a really great storyteller, a very unique storyteller. You won't
see this guy making a Hollywood film ever or close
to one, but he has worked with actors both man
and female, who made Hollywood films. So imagine a Hollywood star,
you know what, I want to work with Lars von Trier,
(01:29):
or hey, this guy wants to work with me, and man,
that person's agent must be like, are you sure and
they're like, hell yeah, why not? Dude, you only live once.
But anyways, Lars von Trier gives you films that actually
are memorable, like you remember it. Like this film Melancholia
(01:49):
came out in twenty eleven. It's a science fiction drama
film that was written, directed by Lars Monttrier, produced by Metta,
Luis Folk and Louis Best, starring Kirsten Duntz, Charlotte Gainsberg,
Alexander Scarsguard, Brady Colbert, Cameron Spur, Charlotte Rampling, Jasper Christensen,
(02:14):
John hurt Stellin, Scarsguard, Udo's Kiir Woo Woo, and Keifer Sutherland,
who you know play the dude, man, you know the
dude from twenty four But not only that, he voiced
Big Boss. Hell yeah, big Boss, shout out to Big Boss.
Cinematography Manuel Alberto Claro, edited by Molly Mulane, stans Guard.
(02:39):
And there's a lot of production companies that, honestly, I
don't even want to name them all, but I'll name
the most important ones that I've seen Canal plus Nordi's Film,
Swedish Film Institute and Zan Tropa Entertainments. Yes, as an s.
This film came out in twenty eleven and between two
(02:59):
thousand and now, I have seen it a handful of times.
I really enjoy this film because this film is about
the end of the world. It's about a planet, a
rogue planet named Melancholia, or at least that's what they
name it in the film. It's a film. It's a
planet that's behind this star or this moon or whatever.
(03:19):
But basically it's behind the sun right from Earth. And
I'm sorry, sef Tone, I know space is fake, but
in this film, we just got to believe it's real. Okay,
can you can you just just be on my side
on this one, dude. Anyways, So the planet comes like
(03:40):
it's it's so hard. It's not hard to explain. It's
just like there's a thing in the film about this
planet where in astrology or astronomy it is known that
a planet like this it makes a dance, right It's
called the dance of death, where it like goes around
the Sun loops and somehow goes so close to Earth
(04:05):
that obviously by being so close to it messes with
the gravitational pull, messes with you know, everything that Earth
is and operates, right, like, all of a sudden, you'll
see a change in temperature, a change in changes of
oxygen levels and all that stuff. The wind's going crazy,
the animals are going nuts. Some of them are running
(04:27):
away from where they're at. But it's like, dude, the
whole planet is being affected. And this is one of
these films where it's the End of the World film
where it only it only focuses on the characters and
not like humanity's sake, right, but like, you know, we
know that it's affecting humanity, but let's just focus on
(04:50):
these characters here. But anyways, it does this loop around
the Earth, goes close to it, and then like just
shoots like in another direct. But there is a twist
in the film where where it loops but it comes
back and is heading straight to Earth and you can
(05:12):
see it and you don't need a telescope to see it.
You can like see it from the naked eye. And
it's big, right, you can tell that it's big. And
you can tell that it's bigger than Earth just by
the size, you know, the proportion levels and all that stuff. Again,
Steph Tone, I love you man. It's a film. It's
a film, but it's a great film, and you know,
the science is kind of there. But anyways, as this
(05:34):
all is going on, there's a woman right played by
Kristen Dunce. She's getting married. From the first act, you
can already tell who the characters are, who cursing character,
Kirsten Dunk's character is, and who Charlotte Gainsburg's character is,
and their sisters. You can tell Gainsburg's character Kirston Dunc's
(05:56):
plays Justine, Charlotte Gainsburg's plays Claire, their sisters. Justine's very depressive.
She's a person who like she lets people kind of
dictate her life, dictate who she is, I guess, you know,
and it puts her in a very depressive state of
mind where to a point she can't even eat, she
(06:18):
can't even get out of bed, like it just like
weighs so much on her. And Charlotte, she's more of
an anxious type, more of a like, oh shit, things
need to be good, things need to be balanced. Out right,
but like you got a planet coming, Justine sees it,
notices it, and knows for a fact that the world's
(06:40):
gonna end. It's going to crash into us, and that's that.
And Claire cannot stand that. She cannot accept it. Like
throughout the whole film, she does everything as she would
normally do on any other day, right, and Justine, for
the first time ever, isn't that there. Actually she accepts it.
(07:02):
She accepts the end at no ease, but like there's
a way that she accepts it where I can't explain
the scenes in the film too much because it really
gives a way as to why Justine is the way
she is, you know, and why she changes in the film.
And her philosophy is pretty simple, man, Like, hey, man,
(07:24):
like we live in this earth, right, we all occupy it?
Is it our home? Really? Is it really our home?
Especially the way that we destroyed it or are destroying it,
you know, we're destroying our own humanity. We have wars,
we got famine, we got food that grows at a
at a rate that like it's unexplainable to to somebody
(07:47):
from like the you know, hunters gatherers era, you know,
like like what like a novocado can grow that big,
a watermelon can grow that big. You know, like we
modified the hell out of this place, and you know what,
the Earth is just there and the planet's coming and
the Earth don't give a fuck. It's just gonna like
react to how the planet is giving it to Earth. Man,
(08:08):
And I personally love it. Man. It's like a nihilism almost,
and Bontrier is like that. Man, he's a nihilist in
this film. Like the characters in his films are like
very like average, Like they don't give a fuck. They
believe what they believe in, whether it's good to us
or bad to us. Like they have a stand and
(08:28):
they stand for it. And there's a struggle in these
characters as they change, and it's all it's all apparent
in a lot of his films, especially in Antichrist, which
gotta see that fucking movie if you haven't, man, this
movie Antichrist. Man, honestly, I bow down to that film.
It is great. But anyways, coming back to Melancholia, right,
(08:53):
Justine says, you know what, like we live in this world.
The world doesn't owe us anything, Earth doesn't know us anything.
We like craped on this Earth, and fucket, this is
what it is. And she's just like celebrating the last
moments of life, but not in an over exaggerated celebratory way,
but more of like just living life with complete ease
(09:16):
and accepting the planet that's coming onto them literally, you know.
And it's the most welcoming thing ever. Poor Claire, though
she loses her husband because that guy's as a hobby,
he's an astronomer or whennot, you know, like he likes
to see stars with this telescope because where he lives,
(09:38):
like you can see the stars at night, you know,
and they look beautiful, right, So he's all into that stuff,
all into astronomy, and he himself starts to freak out
when he knows for sure that this is not this
is not normal, you know. And I'm trying not to
freak out, but in the inside, I am freaking the
hell out right now. And he freaks out, dude, to
(10:00):
the point where I can't even say what happens. But
Claire is just heartbroken by it, and she's just doing
her best to keep everything normal up until the last second.
And it's beautiful. I would give this film honestly a
four out of four tous It's really a great film.
It's a tour the force. It doesn't hold back. All
(10:21):
the characters in the film are great, man, the actors
who play them play them up to a tea. Even
Justine and Claire's mom. Man, she's like the mother in
law you would never want to have, you know. But
like Alexander Scarsgard, you know, he loves Justine enough to
kind of like bear with it, right, you know, but
(10:42):
you know it's not like he's marrying her. He's marrying Justine.
But yeah, man, that mom, goddamn like is partially probably
the reason why Justine is the way she is. Man Like,
she never got that maternal support, and I think for
a person like Justine, that's pretty much what she needed
the most. And obviously her sister can't really help out
(11:05):
because she has her own problems, her own mental like
mental health issues. You know, Like that plays a big
part of like the people that you mess with? Man,
is there a moral to this story to this film?
There is, really, And it's like you got to accept
life as what it is, you know, and if you're
(11:25):
able to, you know, increase the value of your life,
do it. You know, sometimes it's hard sometimes you need
another planet on its way to crash onto our planet
to pretty much kind of change, like, Hey, you know what,
maybe I should like do things different. And that's what
I got from the film, man Like. I can't really
(11:47):
put nothing else on it as to what the moral
of it is, you know, because there's just things that
are like beyond us, you know, beyond our control. And
we all think that we have like the absolute and
we do have most of it, but not all of it.
And when you think that you can do it all,
when you really can't, then you know, you gotta like
(12:10):
kind of do something about that, even if a planet
is crashing into you. Man Like, it's kind of good
to have a like I use a you know, a
piece of mind of sorts. Four out of four Toques
Lons of our Trier. The films from a trilogy called
the Depression Trilogy, the first one being Antichrist or Antichrist
this one, Melancholia, and Nympho Maniac parts one and two.
(12:35):
Yes a two parter film, and each part is two
hours long, so you're literally looking at a four hour
plus film. And I've seen Nympho Maniac once both parts,
and man, that is a it's a tough film to
watch really. It's very adult, very explicit, and it's twisted. Man,
(12:56):
it's coming from larsbond Treer, like he's like putting second
out there, and yeah, I don't want to go more
about it because I would have to watch it again.
And it's a tough watch because it's not like, oh
my god, somebody does somebody gets raped. No, it's nothing
like that, man, It's just the subject matter and the
human condition and boom. That's the one thing about Vauntier.
(13:16):
He loves to inspect the human condition of people. He
himself is a depressive case, which my salute to him
really because like, man, I don't know how a person
who deals with depression, you know, on a daily or
whatnot could make a film and an engaging film for
(13:38):
people to talk about, for critics to talk about. I mean,
this film has won awards, especially at CANS. Who would
have thought a guy who who has a shirt that
says persona non grada could be on that fucking stage,
you know what I mean? So in that regard, shoutout
Tollars Vounteers work following me Morning Shot Films, ig and YouTube.
(13:59):
Check on my web Segmaration Films, I CEO on to
the next one. Thank you, m m hmm.
Good Morning. This is Morning Real, hosted by Ray Salazar,
by Seid I review it, and that is a loud
car going through this block right now. Anyways, sounds like
that don't make me depressed. But there are movies I
pretty much kind of get you in the place of like, man,
(00:22):
I'm depressive, but I'm not that depressive. Anyways, I want
to talk about this film. It's a pretty good film. Man.
It's by Lars von Trier. He's a very controversial filmmaker.
Not necessary well not necessarily well, yeah, you know what
it is. Some of the films, some of the films
that he does are like really extreme. Some of it
(00:45):
are very violent and it just kind of goes into violence.
But outside of the camera, outside of the set, the
man himself, he's a very controversial figure because he'd be
saying some out loungdish stuff about stuff. You know, like
you have to like research about this guy to know.
But honestly, as a filmmaker, I love his work. He's
(01:08):
a really great storyteller, a very unique storyteller. You won't
see this guy making a Hollywood film ever or close
to one, but he has worked with actors both man
and female, who made Hollywood films. So imagine a Hollywood star,
you know what, I want to work with Lars von Trier,
(01:29):
or hey, this guy wants to work with me, and man,
that person's agent must be like, are you sure and
they're like, hell yeah, why not? Dude, you only live once.
But anyways, Lars von Trier gives you films that actually
are memorable, like you remember it. Like this film Melancholia
(01:49):
came out in twenty eleven. It's a science fiction drama
film that was written, directed by Lars Monttrier, produced by Metta,
Luis Folk and Louis Best, starring Kirsten Duntz, Charlotte Gainsberg,
Alexander Scarsguard, Brady Colbert, Cameron Spur, Charlotte Rampling, Jasper Christensen,
(02:14):
John hurt Stellin, Scarsguard, Udo's Kiir Woo Woo, and Keifer Sutherland,
who you know play the dude, man, you know the
dude from twenty four But not only that, he voiced
Big Boss. Hell yeah, big Boss, shout out to Big Boss.
Cinematography Manuel Alberto Claro, edited by Molly Mulane, stans Guard.
(02:39):
And there's a lot of production companies that, honestly, I
don't even want to name them all, but I'll name
the most important ones that I've seen Canal plus Nordi's Film,
Swedish Film Institute and Zan Tropa Entertainments. Yes, as an s.
This film came out in twenty eleven and between two
(02:59):
thousand and now, I have seen it a handful of times.
I really enjoy this film because this film is about
the end of the world. It's about a planet, a
rogue planet named Melancholia, or at least that's what they
name it in the film. It's a film. It's a
planet that's behind this star or this moon or whatever.
(03:19):
But basically it's behind the sun right from Earth. And
I'm sorry, sef Tone, I know space is fake, but
in this film, we just got to believe it's real. Okay,
can you can you just just be on my side
on this one, dude. Anyways, So the planet comes like
(03:40):
it's it's so hard. It's not hard to explain. It's
just like there's a thing in the film about this
planet where in astrology or astronomy it is known that
a planet like this it makes a dance, right It's
called the dance of death, where it like goes around
the Sun loops and somehow goes so close to Earth
(04:05):
that obviously by being so close to it messes with
the gravitational pull, messes with you know, everything that Earth
is and operates, right, like, all of a sudden, you'll
see a change in temperature, a change in changes of
oxygen levels and all that stuff. The wind's going crazy,
the animals are going nuts. Some of them are running
(04:27):
away from where they're at. But it's like, dude, the
whole planet is being affected. And this is one of
these films where it's the End of the World film
where it only it only focuses on the characters and
not like humanity's sake, right, but like, you know, we
know that it's affecting humanity, but let's just focus on
(04:50):
these characters here. But anyways, it does this loop around
the Earth, goes close to it, and then like just
shoots like in another direct. But there is a twist
in the film where where it loops but it comes
back and is heading straight to Earth and you can
(05:12):
see it and you don't need a telescope to see it.
You can like see it from the naked eye. And
it's big, right, you can tell that it's big. And
you can tell that it's bigger than Earth just by
the size, you know, the proportion levels and all that stuff. Again,
Steph Tone, I love you man. It's a film. It's
a film, but it's a great film, and you know,
the science is kind of there. But anyways, as this
(05:34):
all is going on, there's a woman right played by
Kristen Dunce. She's getting married. From the first act, you
can already tell who the characters are, who cursing character,
Kirsten Dunk's character is, and who Charlotte Gainsburg's character is,
and their sisters. You can tell Gainsburg's character Kirston Dunc's
(05:56):
plays Justine, Charlotte Gainsburg's plays Claire, their sisters. Justine's very depressive.
She's a person who like she lets people kind of
dictate her life, dictate who she is, I guess, you know,
and it puts her in a very depressive state of
mind where to a point she can't even eat, she
(06:18):
can't even get out of bed, like it just like
weighs so much on her. And Charlotte, she's more of
an anxious type, more of a like, oh shit, things
need to be good, things need to be balanced. Out right,
but like you got a planet coming, Justine sees it,
notices it, and knows for a fact that the world's
(06:40):
gonna end. It's going to crash into us, and that's that.
And Claire cannot stand that. She cannot accept it. Like
throughout the whole film, she does everything as she would
normally do on any other day, right, and Justine, for
the first time ever, isn't that there. Actually she accepts it.
(07:02):
She accepts the end at no ease, but like there's
a way that she accepts it where I can't explain
the scenes in the film too much because it really
gives a way as to why Justine is the way
she is, you know, and why she changes in the film.
And her philosophy is pretty simple, man, Like, hey, man,
(07:24):
like we live in this earth, right, we all occupy it?
Is it our home? Really? Is it really our home?
Especially the way that we destroyed it or are destroying it,
you know, we're destroying our own humanity. We have wars,
we got famine, we got food that grows at a
at a rate that like it's unexplainable to to somebody
(07:47):
from like the you know, hunters gatherers era, you know,
like like what like a novocado can grow that big,
a watermelon can grow that big. You know, like we
modified the hell out of this place, and you know what,
the Earth is just there and the planet's coming and
the Earth don't give a fuck. It's just gonna like
react to how the planet is giving it to Earth. Man,
(08:08):
And I personally love it. Man. It's like a nihilism almost,
and Bontrier is like that. Man, he's a nihilist in
this film. Like the characters in his films are like
very like average, Like they don't give a fuck. They
believe what they believe in, whether it's good to us
or bad to us. Like they have a stand and
(08:28):
they stand for it. And there's a struggle in these
characters as they change, and it's all it's all apparent
in a lot of his films, especially in Antichrist, which
gotta see that fucking movie if you haven't, man, this
movie Antichrist. Man, honestly, I bow down to that film.
It is great. But anyways, coming back to Melancholia, right,
(08:53):
Justine says, you know what, like we live in this world.
The world doesn't owe us anything, Earth doesn't know us anything.
We like craped on this Earth, and fucket, this is
what it is. And she's just like celebrating the last
moments of life, but not in an over exaggerated celebratory way,
but more of like just living life with complete ease
(09:16):
and accepting the planet that's coming onto them literally, you know.
And it's the most welcoming thing ever. Poor Claire, though
she loses her husband because that guy's as a hobby,
he's an astronomer or whennot, you know, like he likes
to see stars with this telescope because where he lives,
(09:38):
like you can see the stars at night, you know,
and they look beautiful, right, So he's all into that stuff,
all into astronomy, and he himself starts to freak out
when he knows for sure that this is not this
is not normal, you know. And I'm trying not to
freak out, but in the inside, I am freaking the
hell out right now. And he freaks out, dude, to
(10:00):
the point where I can't even say what happens. But
Claire is just heartbroken by it, and she's just doing
her best to keep everything normal up until the last second.
And it's beautiful. I would give this film honestly a
four out of four tous It's really a great film.
It's a tour the force. It doesn't hold back. All
(10:21):
the characters in the film are great, man, the actors
who play them play them up to a tea. Even
Justine and Claire's mom. Man, she's like the mother in
law you would never want to have, you know. But
like Alexander Scarsgard, you know, he loves Justine enough to
kind of like bear with it, right, you know, but
(10:42):
you know it's not like he's marrying her. He's marrying Justine.
But yeah, man, that mom, goddamn like is partially probably
the reason why Justine is the way she is. Man Like,
she never got that maternal support, and I think for
a person like Justine, that's pretty much what she needed
the most. And obviously her sister can't really help out
(11:05):
because she has her own problems, her own mental like
mental health issues. You know, Like that plays a big
part of like the people that you mess with? Man,
is there a moral to this story to this film?
There is, really, And it's like you got to accept
life as what it is, you know, and if you're
(11:25):
able to, you know, increase the value of your life,
do it. You know, sometimes it's hard sometimes you need
another planet on its way to crash onto our planet
to pretty much kind of change, like, Hey, you know what,
maybe I should like do things different. And that's what
I got from the film, man Like. I can't really
(11:47):
put nothing else on it as to what the moral
of it is, you know, because there's just things that
are like beyond us, you know, beyond our control. And
we all think that we have like the absolute and
we do have most of it, but not all of it.
And when you think that you can do it all,
when you really can't, then you know, you gotta like
(12:10):
kind of do something about that, even if a planet
is crashing into you. Man Like, it's kind of good
to have a like I use a you know, a
piece of mind of sorts. Four out of four Toques
Lons of our Trier. The films from a trilogy called
the Depression Trilogy, the first one being Antichrist or Antichrist
this one, Melancholia, and Nympho Maniac parts one and two.
(12:35):
Yes a two parter film, and each part is two
hours long, so you're literally looking at a four hour
plus film. And I've seen Nympho Maniac once both parts,
and man, that is a it's a tough film to
watch really. It's very adult, very explicit, and it's twisted. Man,
(12:56):
it's coming from larsbond Treer, like he's like putting second
out there, and yeah, I don't want to go more
about it because I would have to watch it again.
And it's a tough watch because it's not like, oh
my god, somebody does somebody gets raped. No, it's nothing
like that, man, It's just the subject matter and the
human condition and boom. That's the one thing about Vauntier.
(13:16):
He loves to inspect the human condition of people. He
himself is a depressive case, which my salute to him
really because like, man, I don't know how a person
who deals with depression, you know, on a daily or
whatnot could make a film and an engaging film for
(13:38):
people to talk about, for critics to talk about. I mean,
this film has won awards, especially at CANS. Who would
have thought a guy who who has a shirt that
says persona non grada could be on that fucking stage,
you know what I mean? So in that regard, shoutout
Tollars Vounteers work following me Morning Shot Films, ig and YouTube.
(13:59):
Check on my web Segmaration Films, I CEO on to
the next one. Thank you, m m hmm.
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