The first ten minutes and the last ten minutes of the film are extremely artistic, the narrative in the middle is deviant, the romantic scenes and background music play a soothing role in the heart-wrenching plot, and the acting skills of the two heroines are remarkable. The whole film is divided into two parts. The first part is a bourgeois wedding. On the wedding day, the melancholic played by Kirsten Dunst, because the people around her are demanding and incomprehensible to her, which triggers her depression. Then, again and again, he did all kinds of behaviors that were incomprehensible, embarrassing, and extremely disgusting to normal people, and finally successfully ruined the wedding that was carefully planned by the family. The second part is that the comet hits the earth. After the heroine ruined the wedding, she naturally falls into a more serious depression. At the same time, a planet named Melancholia (melancholia) is about to hit the earth. Normal people cannot accept this fact. They collapsed one after another, and sister Charlotte Gainsbourg also fell into extreme depression after the end of the day.
Melancholy, in Wen Qing's eyes, is an indispensable nutrient, even with the superior atmosphere of petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals, but the real melancholy presented in this film in the eyes of the director is very different from the melancholy understood by ordinary people. If the specific disaster plot of the comet hitting the earth in the second half is to let ordinary people experience the daily emotional state of depression patients, as well as the uncontrollable despair and pain, then the first half of the film is the real disaster. After all, there are very few real natural disasters, but the suffering of patients with depression is real, and the incomprehension of people around them is comparable to the end of the world for patients with depression, or, in other words, an ununderstood and lonely life Well, the end of the world is just that.
The highlight of this film is firstly the acting skills of Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg, secondly, the very slow, intensely colored, beautifully composed romantic shots in the first ten minutes of the film, the exquisite picture style of the whole film, and the last ten minutes when Yu Xing is approaching. The close-up of the planet presents a picture of the doomsday with a strong pressure, which is better than the extremely realistic doomsday scenes in Hollywood. The sense of despair, the little time left flows slowly but is heartbreaking, depicting the fragility and strength of human nature. Kirsten Dunst's nickname "Aunt Steel-breaker" in the film, which translates to "Aunt Steel," until the last ten minutes, was rather ironic for a melancholic who was breaking down. When ordinary people face irreversible despair, the melancholic patient, who has long been accustomed to the sense of despair, shows her "spiritual power". According to the director's own account, the reason is that pathologically, people with depression usually behave very rationally when faced with disasters, because they experience similar situations so frequently that they are accustomed to it.
Since I'm a big fan of Kirsten Dunst, when I saw this film in the film festival list, I immediately listed it as a must-see first. I thought that because I couldn't go to the film festival to watch the film, I had to catch it on the Internet, but I was lucky to see it on the plane, so first of all I want to thank the film selection staff of EVA Air (the last time I saw "What Happened to Kevin" was also on the plane. , EVA Air's film pickers are really good). The translation name of the film "Melancholia", in terms of the translations of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the Chinese version of "Melancholia" is the best, the Hong Kong version of "End of the Century Wedding" is a bit out of place, and the Taiwan version of "Thriller Doomsday" is quite Inappropriate words. If I were to translate it, I would translate it into "The Doomsday of Yuxing".
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