Melancholia

[davepoth]

You know it's getting towards Oscar season when the studios start releasing screener DVDs.

I just watched this film. I thought it was absolutely wonderful; Beautifully shot, great acting, and some very tasteful nudity.

[davepoth]

croyde said:

I agree with the above but wouldn't it have been so much better with Bruce Willis.

A tastefully nude Bruce Willis?

[davepoth]

Disgusted said:

I can see the appeal of Willis for this movie, but surely Van Damme in the Kirsten Dunst role and Seagal cast instead of Charlotte Gainsbourg would have given more gravitas and depth. Disappointing.

Also, I think if the horses had been replaced with, say, muscle cars, it would have been more profound.

[davepoth]

Ok, so-

There are one or two things to this film that make me think it isn't an end of the world movie. The question asked twice was "How many holes does our golf course have", but then if you look closely at the flag on the hole towards the end of the film it all becomes a bit complicated. There is the other issue of quite why nobody ever manages to get across that little bridge.

I'm of the mind that it's written at least partially as a psychotic episode rather than a simple apocalypse.

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croyde said:

Now that's clever thinking.

Is it a bit too clever though? I guess we'll never know; after the "nazi" thing at Cannes the director has refused to do any interviews ever.