And I feel fine: Melancholia
2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 5; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s2215-0366(18)30401-2
ISSN2215-0374
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Resumo“I really hate you sometimes”, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) tells her sister, Justine (Kirsten Dunst). The pair are at Justine's wedding, but this is no nuptial hissy fit over seating plans; it is a calm statement of long established fact. Claire actually tells Justine that she hates her twice in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, and we will get to the second occasion in due course, but the expression of hate is jarring because Claire appears, in all other respects, to be a deeply loyal and loving sister. But, as we learn, Claire hates Justine because Justine is selfish, and Justine is selfish because she is deeply depressed. The release of Melancholia attracted the usual Von Trier-ish controversy, this time for comments the director made about Nazis (again) while at the Cannes film festival. But put aside Von Trier's knack for scandal, and Melancholia is as accurate a representation of what it is like to have depression as any you are likely to see on screen.
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