toolegittoexist:

You know, up until last night I would have told you that Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was the best film of 2011.  Then I went and saw Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and everything changed.  Similar to Antichrist in terms of stunning cinematography and psychological distress, Melancholia is also an unbelievably disturbing film on both a cerebral and real level due to Lars Von Trier’s well-known depression bleeding heavily into the film with its themes of absolute helplessness and solitude, and Justine’s (Kirsten Dunst) lovingly infatuation with a planet set to collide with and destroy Earth. 

Melancholia reaches deep into the mind of a notoriously depressed filmmaker and explains the possible beauty of complete global annihilation.