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Made no sense

posted 10 years ago by catlvr29
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How are they sisters ? one is American the other has an English accent????extremely stupid hard to keep awake movie

[–] AndreiBergman 10 years ago

You've obviously never seen a LVT movie before. A lot of things don't make sense. Much like life in general. The majority of his films don't take place in a specific part of the world. It's fiction. It's his world. Plenty of artists paint weird pictures that don't make sense to the naked eye. Same with Bergman and Tarkovsky, who it seems Lars is most influenced by. Hell, imagine it was all just a dream if you have to. It doesn't take a genius to interpret an artistic statement. I don't see what's so hard about it.

[–] sage2112 9 years ago

Yes, imagining it as a one big dream sequence is probably one of the better ways to go about understanding, and possibly even liking the film.

There was no planet called Melancholia, the characters in the film weren't real people, as they represented ideas and emotions in symbolic ways.

Starting to see it now, OP?

[–] doubl3 9 years ago

If it's a dream sequence, that makes it even MORE boring. Who wants to be bored for 2 hours only to find out it was a dream?

I think it did a good job showing how depression is, but good grief after 10 minutes of it, it was then overkill.

Also whoever said it makes no sense "like real life", that is not an acceptable cop out for a movie being boring and making no sense.

[–] pantteri-05534 9 years ago

WHY THEY DONT SPEAK SWEDISH OR GERMAN.....

[–] izziefans 9 years ago

Could it be that they had same mom but different dads? Kirsten Dunst asked the butler if 'her' father could stay for the night. Am I reading too much into it?

[–] elisabethskoven 9 years ago

No, you are correct-that's what Gainsbourg has said in an interview. I also have a good explanation for the accents in the film. Basically it's a british family living in America. That's why everyone but John Hurt, Gainsbourg and Rampling speak American.

[–] eliuson 9 years ago

Why is this rated so low on the IMDB board?

Lars Von Trier is not for everyone´s taste but this is a masterpiece.

[–] lovinlittles 8 years ago

Although the movie didn't state it, perhaps with the younger sister Justine, she was born in the U.S. and the others in her family were from the U.K. With Claire, she could've been much older than Justine and had been too old when arriving in the U.S. to even lose her accent. Just a guess of course.. :)