'Melancolia' is the new film of the controversial Danish director Lars von Trier. It's not just about the state of mind being melancholy, it's the name of the planet in the film, that threatens to collide with the earth and destroys it all together. Under such threat develops two consecutive stories with the same characters. Confronting such devastation forces out the most concealed aspects of these people, while civilization as we know it, prepares for it's destruction.
The recent scandal - the bumbling words by von Trier at the Canns Film Festival, caused him to declare publicly that he would never accept an interview again, as there's always the possibility of different interpretations of what he said, and mostly to add controversy or negative twist to his words. Even labelling him as pro-Naxi. But he did talk to a Spanish paper before he began to fulfil his declaration.
He admitted to being an imbecile, that he should have known better that there's always more than one way to skin the cat, that reporters are not there just to report news but to sometimes create them, with hints to lead people astray just a little. And, that he's not clever with word games. He believes that there's a little bit of Naxi in all of us, and a little bit of human in Hitler. I think I tend to agree on this last statement.
Bach to the film. Some images I have seen, the prologue of a succession of scenes with movements almost imperceptible, but are sumptuous and at the same time most frighteningly and shockingly beautiful.
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