Melancholia - by Lars von Trier. Journalist Nils Thorsen, author of last year’s ’The Genius – Lars von Trier’s Life, Films and Phobias’, has spoken with the director in March, while Lars von Trier was putting the last touches on ’Melancholia’. Let us get it over with right away. 110480 de 51484 Paulo 49074 São 46318 do 40723 Brasil 38043 da 37922 Da 35214 US$ 33367 Folha 2900 Local 19724 Reportagem 1790 José 15364. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. The end of Lars von Trier's film 'Melancholia'. Everybody dies. Not just the guests at the grand wedding held in the first part of the film at an ever- so- romantic castle surrounded by a golf course. And not just all life on Earth. For in the world evoked by the Danish film maker this time, we are absolutely alone in the universe. So what ends in our planet's cosmic embrace with the ten times bigger planet, Melancholia, is life as such and our recollection of it. No ending could be more final. Search torrents on dozens of torrent sites and torrent trackers. Unblock torrent sites by proxy. PirateBay proxies, RARBG unblocked and more torrent proxies. And, as Trier remarks with a black humour germane to him: »In a way, the film does have a happy ending.«It is no coincidence that we begin at the end with a sunny day in spring, when everything seems to start all over again in lush green, and I visit the director in his mix of an office and a living room on the outskirts of the Film Town in Aved. Indeed the ending was what was in place from the outset when he started to work on the idea of 'Melancholia', just as he immediately knew that the audience needed to know it from the first images of the film.»It was the same thing with 'Titanic',« he says as he assumes his favourite interview pose, lying on the faded green cushions on his exuberant couch, arms flung over his head. And it is my thesis that most films are like that, really.« »In a James Bond movie we expect the hero to survive. It can get exciting nonetheless. And some things may be thrilling precisely because we know what's going to happen, but not how they will happen. In 'Melancholia' it's interesting to see how the characters we follow react as the planet approaches Earth.«The Germ of 'Melancholia'We follow two sisters till the bitter end. Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst. A melancholic by the grace of God, she has a hard time finding her place in the world and assuming all its empty rituals, but feels more at home when the world draws near its end. And then her sensible big sister Claire, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who thrives in the world and consequently finds it hard to say goodbye to it.»I think that Justine is very much me. She is based a lot on my person and my experiences with doomsday prophecies and depression. Whereas Claire is meant to be a .. He sought inspiration at museums, listened to music and mentioned snippets of thoughts in bits and bobs, images and plot segments which I now find have reached the screen. But the film was not the main objective. The main objective was his emotional well- being. The work consisted of scheduled walks and office hours with the aim of gradually pulling himself out of the depression that struck him some years earlier. Dragon Ball GT Seasons One & Two Buy Now 64 Episodes across two seasons. Catch the final chapter to the Dragon Ball universe in 64 thrilling episodes. You have not yet voted on this site! If you have already visited the site, please help us classify the good from the bad by voting on this site. Pes demo download 2006 pride and prejudice download 2005 download bot no pw fate zero opening 2 video download download gratis hotspot shield launch download jadoo. For Lars von Trier is a melancholiac incarnate. He drags himself through the times when he is not making films and could actually just enjoy life, but is at his best when the shit hits the fan and everything depends on him. Film crews and investors, actors, lines and plots. Not to mentions the cinematic language itself, which at best must be supplied with a few neologisms along the way while he is looking for some sore toes of culture, politics or ethics that he can step on, as he will do.»My analyst told me that melancholiacs will usually be more level- headed than ordinary people in a disastrous situation, partly because they can say: 'What did I tell you?« he laughs. From then on, things were speeding up. Less than a year later, the script was written, the actors found and the crew in the process of shooting. On the edge of plastic. Throughout most of the year when I interviewed the director, his mood gradually improved as the work progressed. And as he is lying there on the couch in his black hooded sweatshirt and his grey beard, he seems even more cheerful.»I had more fun making this film, and I've been far more present. But then again, I was going through a bad time during 'Antichrist',« he says. In 'Melancholia' he grapples with melancholia itself. More than cataclysms. But even though his take- off is his own depression, the idea developed during a conversation and a letter exchange with actress Pen. She spoke of her fascination with the play 'The Maids' by the French dramatist Jean Genet, in which two maids kill their mistress.»But I don't do anything that's not born by me, I said. So I tried to write something for her. The film is actually based on the two maids whom I turned into sisters in the film. So I used that, too.«The title was inspired by his own depression. Later, presumably in a TV documentary, he saw that Saturn is the planet for melancholia, and, searching the internet, he suddenly came across a web page about cosmic collisions. As in 'Antichrist', 'Melancholia' opens with an overture . That you strike some themes. And, typically, we would have made an image of special effects of something we found would happen at such a collision, even though the plot itself just hints at the disaster in close ups. The camera is handheld, for the most part. But the problem was that we had a magnificent castle in Sweden, and when you add a wedding with all the guests in gala and tux, it can hardly avoid becoming .. So I think the film is slightly on the edge of plastic. Here and there. Would you please write that?«The empty rituals of reality. After the initial doomsday ballet, the film falls in two parts. The other bears the title 'Claire' and covers the countdown to the end. As the director puts it: »If everything has to go to hell, it needs to start off well.«The melancholy Justine is determined to become normal, he explains. So now she wants to get married.»She wants to end all the silliness and anxiety and doubt. That's why she wants a real wedding. And everything goes well until she cannot meet her own demands. There is a recurring line: 'Are you happy?' She has to be. Otherwise, the wedding is silly. You must be happy now! And they all try to bring her ashore, but she doesn't really want to be part of it.«In the film she seems unable to engage in the situation. Isn't she serious about it? In the start she is toying with it all in an off- hand manner, because she feels so on top of things that she can poke fun at it. But slowly, melancholia descends like a curtain between her and all the things she has set in motion. And when she gets to the wedding night, she simply can't cope.«. She seems to be somewhere else than the others – where is she, mentally? And she gets it, too. In a way, she succeeds in pulling this planet from behind the sun and she surrenders to it.«. When you're longing for shipwrecks and sudden death, it must be because it seems more real than this phony world? She really suffers from doubts. And when she is at the wedding which she has imposed upon herself, she is seized by that doubt.«Doubt about what? A wedding, after all, is a ritual. But is there something beyond the ritual at all? There isn't. Not to her.«. It's a great shame that we melancholiacs don't value rituals. I'm having a tough time at parties myself. Now we'll all have fun, fun, fun. Perhaps because melancholiacs set the stakes higher than at just a few beers and some music. And there's more of a party if we have coloured festoons. It seems so phony. Rituals are, you know. But if rituals are worth nothing, that goes for everything, you know.«That, I suppose, is the view of the melancholiac – that everything's hollow? The ritual is like a film. There has to be something in the film. And then the film's plot is the ritual that leads us to what's inside. And if there's something inside and beyond, I can relate to the ritual. But if the rituals are empty, that is: if it's no longer fun to get Christmas presents or see the joy of the kids, then the whole ritual about dragging a tree inside the living room becomes empty.«So, in a way that's the eternal question of the melancholiac: is it all hollow? Is there a content? And there isn't. And that's what Justine sees every time she looks at that fucking wedding. He isn't wearing anything. She has submitted to a ritual without a meaning.«And the others don't feel that? She is longing for pathos and drama, Lars von Trier explains.»She is longing for something of true value. And true values entail suffering. That's the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art to contain a touch of melancholia. So melancholia in itself is a value. Unhappy and unrequited love is more romantic than happy love. For we don't think that's completely real, do we?«But why does the melancholic long for shipwrecks and sudden death? Longing is true. It may be that there's no truth at all to long for, but the longing itself is true. Just like pain is true. We feel it inside. It's part of reality.« How do you personally feel about the thought that the world might come to an end? As Justine says: Life is evil, right? And life is a wicked idea. God may have had fun at creation, but he didn't really think things through,« the director laughs. If nobody would be in pain. Then people might say: how nasty, what about all the lives that wouldn't be lived? But I can't help seeing it all as a mean streak.«What is there most of in life – misery or joy? You may argue: Orgasm. Yes, that's fine enough. But, orgasms, Ferraris and other pleasures. Yes, but with death and suffering at the other end of the scale, these weigh more, I think. And there's much more suffering and pain than pleasure. And when you enjoy a spring day, that too is a kind of melancholy.«. The wedding is Justine's last attempt to fight her way back into life instead of longing herself out of it. When you're being cured of a depression, you're forced to instigate some rituals as well. Take a five minute walk, for instance. And by going through the motions, the rituals will accumulate some meaning as well.«According to the motto: Fake it till you make it?
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