{"id":12076,"date":"2011-10-26T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=12076"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:12:05","slug":"harriet-vickers-psychiatry-to-save-the-world-lars-von-triers-melancholia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/10\/26\/harriet-vickers-psychiatry-to-save-the-world-lars-von-triers-melancholia\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Vickers: Psychiatry to save the world: Lars von Trier&#8217;s Melancholia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/harriet_vickers.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet Vickers\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" \/>Lars von Trier has made no secret of the fact he\u2019s suffered from depression. At the beginning of 1997 he was hospitalised with the condition, saying it left him incapacitated for six months. Whilst the film he wrote during this period, <em>Antichrist<\/em>, was an explicit nightmare borne from the experience (genital self-mutilation, graphic torture, talking foxes) his latest film, <em>Melancholia<\/em>, is a more contemplative look at the disease.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In two chapters, the film not only portrays the outward expression of the condition and the impact it has on the depressed Justine\u2019s family, friends and husband (through a much lauded performance by Kirsten Dunst), but the hopeless, doomed and perceptively unreal world the disease has taken her into.<\/p>\n<p>Claire (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg)\u00a0is Justine\u2019s sister, and in the first chapter (titled &#8220;Justine&#8221;) we see her pulling Justine through the extravagant wedding party she has organised for her. Justine at first appears a cheery, privileged, and content bride, but as the evening wears on we see her fa\u00e7ade dissolve. The party is tediously scheduled and highly orchestrated, with the newly weds expected to perform. As the long evening wears on, tension grows between the sisters\u2019 estranged parents. Her boss is determined to extract an advertising tagline from her, even hiring a young man to follow her around \u201cto catch the moment inspiration strikes.\u201d Claire\u2019s braggart millionaire husband, who\u2019s gracelessly shelled-out for the party, won\u2019t let her forget it. Everyone is questioning her on why she\u2019s not happy.<\/p>\n<p>As the pressure builds up, Justine\u2019s depression becomes apparent. She wanders in and out of the party \u2013 going to take a bath, falling asleep, necking whiskey, driving around alone in a golf buggy and coldly shagging the young man who\u2019s been hired to tail her on the lawn. She tells Claire that she\u2019s \u201cwading through this grey mud, it\u2019s clinging to my legs, it\u2019s heavy to carry on,\u201d the image of which von Trier beautifully gives us within a montage of ideas from the film at its beginning. Later Justine breaks down in front of her mother, sobbing that she\u2019s \u201cso afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the second section -&#8220;Claire&#8221;- it\u2019s Claire who is struggling in Justine\u2019s world, as we\u2019re taken into Justine\u2019s depressed experience and psychosis. Here the world is about to end, as the un subtly named planet Melancholia progresses in its collision course with Earth. Staying with Claire to recover after becoming severely unwell, Justine is calm and accepting of the apocalypse; after all she says she knew this was coming and \u201cthe earth is evil, nobody will miss it. All I know is life on earth is evil.\u201d Her sister however becomes frantic and hysterical; here it is she who is \u201cso afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photography in this chapter also draws us into Justine\u2019s mind \u2013 the sequences are slow and sensual. In one sequence she and Claire are in the garden picking berries when it inexplicitly begins to snow. The noises from the garden are heightened, and the camera lingers on the flakes brushing against Justine.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the film is the end of the world, in Justine\u2019s unreality there is no part for Bruce Willis or Will Smith. But if there were, they would be a good psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harriet Vickers<\/strong> is multimedia assistant, <em>BMJ.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lars von Trier has made no secret of the fact he\u2019s suffered from depression. 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