Melancholia Triumphant 2

My friend and I are discussing the film Melancholia.
Very briefly, I understand the final scenes as a way to transcend or escape.

I had the distinct impression that the structure that was built in the imagination of Lars von Trier, depicted in the film as an uncovered three-pole tipi, was exactly as if Jean-Paul Sartre were standing on the stage where a performance of his Huis Clos (No Exit) is going on, and was crudely drawing a large, cartoon-like door on a piece of the set...


(By "cartoon-like" I am invoking things like Max and David Fleischer's art, and not implying anything derogatory. The picture below is a low-quality photo of Wiley Coyote attempting to follow the Road Runner through a cartoon tunnel the coyote has painted on a canyon wall, and through which the Road Runner has just run.
It is not a matter of belief or faith, but of non-awareness...
And Wiley Coyote is hopelessly aware of his "reality"... rather like Kiefer Sutherland's logical and business-like character was in Melancholia, who crashed into the wall of his reality. )

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Melancholia Triumphant!

My friend in Toronto just saw Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier, and said it was superb!

I feel justified. I saw it a few months ago, and I was literally blown away by it. It was an incredible cinematic experience. I told many people and tried to get friends to go to it, but nobody would.

As I read reviews about it, I had to wade through a rehash of everything said or imagined about Lars von Treier, but most reviews totally missed it. I found the ending to be the most intense cinematic portrayal of an ancient and primal sense of the Holy that I have ever seen.

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