The film Melancholia fits with the apocalyptic images in the scripture texts for the first Sunday in Advent. Our cinephile group saw this at the Bytowne on Friday night. Kirsten Dunst was brilliant and I can see why she won best actress at Cannes.
Danish director Lars von Trier who was banned from Cannes after jokes about Jews and Hitler, has a bleak view of relationships and the fate of the world. He conveys the brokenness of the humanity in ways that has the audience shaking their heads and groaning.
The weight of the world which as been on Justine (Kirsten) begins to shift onto us. We feel the sadness, the inability to escape fate. And then there is this moment when an unexpected Christ figure steps forward.
It is a small thing in the larger scheme of things but an act of compassion occurs. Sometimes that is all that is available to us.
Some of the group are lobbying for a more cheerful film next time.
Peter
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