Melancholia (2011)
Figures
Form & technique
- The opening eight-minute overture sequence
- The film's use of 19th-century Romantic aesthetics (painting, music)
- The planet Melancholia as a narrative entity
Tropes
- Justine's depression and her calm acceptance of the apocalypse
- The visual spectacle of the planet Melancholia colliding with Earth
- Justine's relationship with her mother and her profound depression
- Justine's "knowing" clairvoyance about the end of the world