Wait, I'm confused...
She didn't want to have sex right then, at least not with her husband, but then she left and went to have sex with some guy, why?
If she wasn't in the mood, fine. But, if she wanted to have sex with someone, why not just do it with her husband?
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Because having sex with her husband on the wedding night would be, in her state of mind, another ridicoulus ritual to follow which is the last thing she wants. She doesnt care about anything anymore, she wants out. And she still wants sex and since there's no right or wrong in her mind, the melancholic mind, she goes for the other guy.
shareBecause she a women, they all do stuff like this.
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I saw it as her needing distraction but not being able to handle real emotions, due to the overwhelming depression. That's why she chose to distract herself with someone she wasn't emotionally attached to.
shareIsn’t one strong trigger to her behaviour the terrible example of her two parents and their disastrous relationship? Wouldn’t you be afraid of turning out like them? Could seeing them in action together at the wedding reception have put her off the whole idea of matrimony?
So, instead of consummating with her loving but dull husband, she picks a stupid arrogant young jerk she’s never met before for a loveless coupling on the golf course. Is it her gesture against bourgeois marriage and against her well-off family?
Hmm, hadn't thought of it like that. That's quite brilliant, to be honest.
shareI'm glad to see I'm not the only one puzzled by this. My theory is this.
She talks to her mother, to ask what to do about her feelings during the marriage. She's clearly feeling trapped and unable to cope with the whole idea. Her mother suggests nothing more than "just get the hell out of here".
And then that's all she wants to do. To get out of it. To get away from all the demands being placed on her.
So she does the one thing that will definitely destroy the marriage.
Of course, during what should be the happiest day of her life, she's acting like it's the end of the world. So when the world is actually ending, her behaviour seems a lot more sensible. She's about the only one able to keep her head when the end is actually nigh.
Well, you missed the point.
Most depressed or melancholic people (check with any psychiatry journal or book or website), especially in case of some disorders, have a tendency to act impulsively and irrationally at some points. This was a very fine example, given that sex and food are two of the most common escapism forms.
I co-sign with the theory explaining that she just wanted to be out of every: out of the rituals and traditions everyone expected her to follow.
Some others have mentioned irrationality/impulsiveness as symptoms of depression and I find that to be true, especially during a manic episode where people might do extremely high-risk sexual acts.
You can always see the people who understand depression and those that don't in these threads, from the questions to the responses, it's always pretty obvious.
Don't get me wrong, in a way, I kind of envy your inability to get it, for the rest of us that do, well :/
She was being impulsive, she wanted to feel something, she wanted to do something self destructive. She didn't have sex with him because she thought he was hot or because she was dying for sex.
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I think it's just because she is a bitch.
She is interested sexually with this new guy she met and couldn't resist to have sex with him.
"I'm a depressed person" is her excuse to satisfy her lust
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Could someone explain the significance of that scene where Kirsten took off all her clothes and lay on the grassy slope as she watched Melancholia approaching?
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I agree. When you're depressed, you feel low, you feel almost... down in the dirt. I think in this situation, despite the fact we never hear into her mind, I get the feeling she did love her husband, but that she felt she wasn't good enough for him.
He was so good and so nice. And when he started to undress he was obviously hot as hell, so it wasn't a looks thing. She just felt, she was not right in the head to be with him, because he seemed very sane. So she used that young guy, who probably would be cool with random sex, in order to feel better about herself and to ease her deep numbness.
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But the scenes at the beginning of the movie, don't they indicate she was depressed because she knew the world was going to end to begin with?. Or she felt she knew.
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