It's the end of the world as we know it.....and I feel clinically depressed.

Well today I finally got see 'Melancholia' after what seemed an eternity of waiting and what can I say?

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It did not dissapoint. It is definitely his most ambitious and polished project yet, but as with all his films substance not only equals style but there is enough substance to keep diehard VT fans like myself chewing over the bones for weeks. I'm not going to go into a big pretentious essay on 'Why I love Von Trier'...but I may bulletpoint.
This is so far my film of the year, which up to now has been 'Black Swan'. Kirsten Dunst is sublime as the deeply troubled Justine, the focas of the first part of the film, she really owns the film which is no easy feat against the ever watchable and VT muse of late, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Though that illustrates just how good Dunst is, as Gainsbourg, as sister Claire, is phenomenal.
It's no spoiler to say that this is an apocalyptic drama. And it is strangely traumatic, haunting, beautiful. I was warned I would be emotionally drained by the end and I wasn't dissapointed again. One of the many,many things I love about LVT is how fully realised his work is. There are so many films I see that afterwards I think yeah it's okay but..... they're always lacking something. The story loses steam after a while, exposition and character get compromised. You can tell the director starts off with good intent and then doesn't know what the hell to do with it. That's what I mean by being fully realised, LVT knows his shit, he makes a film into something you have never seen before and will NEVER see again and leaves nothing wanting. David Lynch is the only other contemprary director who I would consider on a par, that can transcend film into art and art into a masterpiece. I know it won't be to everyones tastes, 4 people walked out during the screening I went to (FOOLS) but nobody polarises an audience like Von Trier. I always find it curious that people find him a misogynistic director, most of the people I know who adore him are female and he creates such beautiful,challenging female characters. He's not afraid to portray the truth of humanity and essentially I think that's the crux of why I adore his films.

My only gripe. If the world was coming to an end and Alexander Skarsgard was begging me for sex a) Would I notice? b) Would I care? c) Would I tell him to give it a rest,i'm a bit depressed. Unfortunatly for me and thankfully for everyone else I will never have this dilemma or it would be a film of an all together different kind.