Von Trier's Melancholia is currently showing in Dublin's IFI in Temple Bar.
Easy to miss the first 20 minutes and still follow the film.
A reviewer has said it is tedious, which it is but it is also making a statement.
Justine, the bride, is 'specially gifted' from the beginning of the film to realise that everything about the world is pointless - there is nothing to it but 'evil'.
So when the world is threatened by another 'planet' she does not fret or grow surprised.
But she does 'protect' her little nephew by telling him and then building for him a 'magic cave', in which he, Justine - Kirsten Dunst - and Justine's mother, her sister, go for protection.
The little boy believes he is safe. But of course no-one is safe.
The film is about the nonsense of life, the world, our importance.
For anyone engaged in trying to say anything about the Word of God the film might make some sense. It might well be an antidote for silly, trite preaching. There are no platitudes in this film.
The two links below deal with Melancholia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/sep/29/melancholia-film-review
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/8520943/Cannes-2011-Melancholia-review.html
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