WHAT TOTAL TOSH!!!!!

I usually hate slow films. Thought I would hate this film when I watched it but actually quite enjoyed it. I felt for the characters, even though I am usually a cold hearted bitch LOL!

yeah it was pretty bad. and one of the actresses was in another horrible movie called the science of sleep

Totally agree! Sat through this whole waste of film, and I completely regret it. I wasn't depressed beforehand, but Melancholia sure brought me down. The final 5 minutes is quite unforgettable though, I will say that. The rest of it along with all the annoying illogical characters, however, made me root for the rogue planet to hurry up and smash into the Earth!

Yep. Completely pretentious, self-indulgent garbage. I have 15 minutes left and I'm debating turning it off.

Lars von Trier is really just terrible at making films. I still haven't seen one of his I liked.

Also, leishayoung is a lunatic. Ignored.

This is one of the worst films that I have ever seen.

I've suffered from depression for most of my life and I think this film is pretentious bull ****. What an absolute waste of time, energy and money. I was actually angry when I finished as I felt so annoyed that I'd wasted that long watching this drivel.

Another vote for this being a total load of old bollocks.

I love the defence of this film here, which is apparently that because when you are depressed you are a horrible, unpleasant, worthless person (which is not actually true, but anyway) somehow this means that we should all be fascinated to watch horrible, unpleasant, worthless people doing not very much for what feels like about 10 hours. And if, at the end, we either dislike them intensely or feel completely disengaged, this is apparently a triumph of art because that's how the characters feel.

Of course, it doesn't occur to these people that a truly great movie about depression (or whatever variation of the brilliant metaphor supposedly presented here you prefer) would be to allow NON-depressed people to experience non-depressed emotions towards to plight of someone suffering from that condition. Not to masochistically force viewers to experience the same unpleasant version of the world as the character.

If Lars Von Trier had made the Diving Bell and the Butterfly it would presumably have been a single static camera shot for 2.5 hours. And it would have been hailed as a masterpiece by the same people who love this movie because it would show the true experience of being a quadruplegic.

Now, the standard disclaimer. I like art house films, challenging films, films with confronting ideas and complex characters, blah blah blah.

Tosh? I love the English speak. LOL.

Luckily I knew what I was getting into before watching it. I even knew how it ended before watching it, yet I still enjoyed it. It's a little slow, but it had enough to keep me going. A little T&A doesn't hurt either for a slow film.