Melancholia.
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Everything is already written in the beginning. The rest will be nothing but repetition. This is how Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia opens, revealing the secret of melancholy and the shadow it casts over life. The stark alternative it offers us – between the imaginary paranoia and the tragic disenchantment of science – seems capable of grasping the question at which the time we live is suspended: Melancholia is a film about the failure of knowledge and the emergence of the real. However, after the absolute beginning that Lars von Trier captures in his film’s overture, between the globe and the planet about to strike it, the film opens up an additional time, that of waiting just when there is no time left.
Source: Università degli Studi di Verona
Author: Bonazzi, Matteo
Institution: University of Verona
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6903711095
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