Melancholia

[TexasKevin 2]

I know it's winning awards, but this thing was painfully awful to me.

 

The first 8-9 min where there is the big symphony music over slow motion stuff. Wanted to dice wrists.

The whole thing looks like it's shot straight handheld, no steadi-cam. So most of the film the camera is flying all over and your looking at back of heads and waists, and as people move shots of whatever happened to be in the background.

Sometimes the camera was bouncing around so much I was getting motion sick.

 

So the story. Yeah I have no clue what this is about. It seemed basically to be just watching the most boring wedding party ever. Some of it the dialogue is weird, I guess no one wanted to tell Lars that people that speak english wouldn't say something in the ways he chose.

 

To be quite honest maybe it gets better, but an hour and twenty minutes in I still didn't know what it was about and I was so bored I couldn't stand it and I left.

[sarahride 83]

Will someone fucking acknowledge the fact that Kirsten Dunst is the only American in her immediate family??