Paris is Burning

Melancholia 2011 By Lars VonTrier

Last week, I saw Melancholia- a glossy film with beautiful cinematography about the end of the world. The movie had a horrible script and at moments (like many others did) I wanted to get up and leave the theatre. The only thing that held me in my seat, was the lure of seeing what beautiful tragedy the end of the world might look like.
In the movie, the end of the world comes to fruition when an extrasolar planet falls from the interstellar void in the solar system. It makes a close "fly by" from behind the sun and passes the Earth so closely it takes some of our atmosphere. At first it recedes, then it collides in a simple harmonic motion .
Everything in the movie was beautiful, the acting was very unbelievable but the main story line was plausible. The scene which I felt was most embarrassing (yet very art deco and beautiful) was the sight of Kirsten Dunst "recharging" her nude body on some rocks under the planet Melancholia at night. If I wasn't severely visually stimulated, it would have been the point in the plot which I would have exited stage right.

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