MelonCholia A Movie ReVieW

From the promotional pamplet broshure, we adduced a gory film struck within the shimmering and deathly gaze and demeanour of the girl in the wedding dress.

What got me to watch this film in the cinema was the photoshopped creative work that showed a wedding party of people at a table with a backdrop of a mysterious enigmatic evening of suspense and intrigue.

A movie quality is made by its very cinematography where scenery plays a crucial role not just to compliment the storyline of the script, but to express what books can, that is the layers of meaning hidden behind the film.

The use of metaphor works always well and for this film the constant lingering one that connects the word melacholia or depression with the name given to a mysterious impending dooms day comet that has some pending course the audience is oblivious to until the end part of the film.

In the beginning a vision is made by the main character woman who seems to have projected this image a collision of two planets. The guess was struck when the audience was brought to gaze upon the uncanny two moons in one shown during the course of the film

The enduring film interplays a weird and disturbed wedding feast, thinking the woman to be possessed and highly mentally disturbed where a happy occasion is met the mysterious depression and melancholia that the audience is made to guess whilst quit literally and metaphorically reflecting the physical reality of a actual collision between a melancholia comet and planet earth.

It ponders the dualistic belief that all of man's destiny is made out in the stars, as like theatre characters where the person is hidden behind a mask and plays out a sequence of events predictable in a blemished marriage ceremony turned chaotic from the impending doom looming near.

This film is a icon of despair where hope has no expression or personification of its own.

This film's gothic nature perhaps is a reflection of the directors view of life and reason for existence. Perhaps he sees life as a random event that can be ended with another random event.

He turns a sacred marriage with all its spiritual meaning and harvest into a game of empty puppets on a stage plunged into a course of chaos where one person's very nature is questioned because of the yet to be revealed hidden melancholia, still not known as whether it is a comet or a family secret oozing the emotion of melacholia as like a ancient greek personification, but vivid during the gloomy and dark portrayal in the film that will leave the audience feeling the suspense and anticipation that may culminate from the disturbed behaviour of the wedding woman during the course of the film.

I like kurt russell as the film reminded me of flatliners, whilst this impending mystery was still in the air, however I was totally dismayed by the choice of the film writers to decide to make out his character as somewhat a coward once again reiterating the goal of director to present the gloomy wedding guest figures as mere gothic puppets on a stage with no purpose and reason but subject to the perpetual fate of the stars and random chaos.

Whether I like this film or not, depends on perspective, but I did not like the ending.

I keep an open mind to the film that perhaps deep down it was merely trying to represent the sense of hopelessness people all over the world go through. Where for many an impending doom will inevitably come and wash them away.

Perhaps to portray the uncertainly of life and death is a gory horrific way.

I guess all films don't need a happy ending, however I could not help that reason and spirit should be subject to the creative license of the few, who masquerade and impose their religious convictions of the atheistic kind onto a unsuspecting audience.

From the creative side of things, the movie was beautiful but gory.

It focused allot of scenery and don't mind that the film takes its time,however for me the director was rubbing it in, reflecting on all the everyday things as empty and without purpose and meaning or perhaps the end of the world for the director encapsulated all these things, activity without meaning.

As a writer with a biased critique, As a christian it did not appeal and touch my humanity.

It portrayed the morbid, empty hopelessness and despair through the lack of heroism which once again enforced the idea of the empty puppet in a theatre stage playing out pretend emotions and guises and where love and emotion was subordinated and warped in favour of the pre destinial doom and fate lingering in space and in the stars..

The Inevitable doom was cinematically enforced through the film. There is no prayer, not even reflection of memories, but there is a woman disturbed because she sees into the future, an impending doom, a medieval style of faith where your doomed or your not.

Her craziness is brought by her hopelessness and despair and the film narrates to a cresendo where the director tags you along the journey but teasing and snapping a resolution with only perpetual confusion and uncertainty, to only plunge you into the depths of despair of which where the movie always intended to lead you.

I prefer the christian version to the end of the world where our saviour we will dave us from the wickedness of man in the end times. The director I believe tried to subvert this view with shock and gore.

Not a film to watch with kids.

5 out of 10.