Later #53 a movie: 'Melancholia'

Saw the movie, ‘Melancholia.’ This story is set in a sumptuous English country estate at a time when the formerly hidden planet, Melancholia, is discovered and just may be on a trajectory to collide with planet Earth. Kirsten Dunst plays the newly wedded but deeply depressed Justine, sister of the Charlotte Gainsbourg character, Claire.

There is an interdependency between the sister characters that draws you into an intense psychological and at times, macabre, world. There is the depressed Justine who appears so utterly mad but at the same time is so insightful. Then there is the calm but gullible Claire, who is convinced by the reassurances given by her scientist husband (played by Kiefer Sutherland) of the planet’s trajectory and thereby deprived of any opportunity to prepare for what might eventuate. This movie has the capacity to challenge everything if you let it. If you do that, then you should feel exhilarated. 9/10.

http://www.magpictures.com/melancholia/