All I can say is that 'Melancholia' is on a par with '2001'.
Simply, you'll either be captivated or you won't. Some viewers of '2001' react with hostility upon the conclusion of that film. You can explain it to them over and over and they just see garbage.
'Melancholia' is to emotion as '2001' was to intellect. It forces one into the most emotional extreme there is the same way '2001' forces one to grasp a greater intellectual construct.
Those who call films like these "garbage" simply don't get it. But it's simple, really: the two films posit there may be something out there bigger than we are.
98/100
Simply, you'll either be captivated or you won't. Some viewers of '2001' react with hostility upon the conclusion of that film. You can explain it to them over and over and they just see garbage.
'Melancholia' is to emotion as '2001' was to intellect. It forces one into the most emotional extreme there is the same way '2001' forces one to grasp a greater intellectual construct.
Those who call films like these "garbage" simply don't get it. But it's simple, really: the two films posit there may be something out there bigger than we are.
98/100