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Like Von Trier's [[Film/AntiChrist previous movie]], '' Melancholia'' was surrounded by some consternation at the Cannes Film Festival. Von Trier's jokes about AdolfHitler and NaziGermany resulted in him being declared a ''[[DudeNotFunny persona non grata]]''. Dunst's performance was praised, however, and she walked away with the Best Actress Award.
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Like Von Trier's [[Film/AntiChrist [[{{Film/Antichrist}} previous movie]], '' Melancholia'' was surrounded by some consternation at the Cannes Film Festival. Von Trier's jokes about AdolfHitler and NaziGermany resulted in him being declared a ''[[DudeNotFunny persona non grata]]''. Dunst's performance was praised, however, and she walked away with the Best Actress Award.
* WorldLimitedToThePlot: Unusually for a disaster film; the film focuses solely on Justine, her family, and guests, and shows none of the outside world's reactions to Melancholia.
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* ColonyDrop: Of a sort. Earth eventually smashes into the much larger Melancholia, which obliterates it and absorbs the debris.
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* ColonyDrop: Of a sort. Earth [[spoiler:Earth eventually smashes into the much larger Melancholia, which obliterates it and absorbs the debris.]]
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* ShoutOut: The whole movie is basically a shout-out to ''When Worlds Collide'' set in the 2000s, only told from the perspective of ordinary people. There's a flyby, a HopeSpot, then the realization that the collision will happen after all and Earth (and they) are finished.
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* ColonyDrop: Of a sort. Earth eventually smashes into the much larger Melancholia.Melancholia, which obliterates it and absorbs the debris.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Melancholia hits Earth. Von Trier deliberately showed this right away because he didn't want suspense to be the point of the audience's experience.
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* XMeetsY: It's DespairEventHorizon: TheMovie ''TheMovie'' meets DeepImpact.''DeepImpact''.
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It was Antares, not Arcturus; they never said it did any other flybys, only that it didn\'t hit Mercury or Venus; yes it could, it would be just like throwing the planet up and waiting for it to come down again.
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* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately. In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybys of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth.
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* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately. In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus Antares for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybys of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly even a flyby could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth.potentially be disastrous.[[note]]It might "slingshot" the Earth out of orbit, and the tidal forces could also wreak havoc, depending on Melancholia's mass.[[/note]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied {{Implied|Trope}} when Justine is bathing in Melancholia's light.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Everyone in the film uses their natural accent, so it's not clear where the film takes place. Claire and Justine are sisters with British parents, but Dunst as Justine uses her American accent. She works for a Danish man who has a nephew with an American accent. The resort's butler is Danish and the wedding has a German planner. Claire is married to an American man and their child has an American accent.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: It doesn't seem to occur to Tim that having sex with his coworker, whom he has just met, ''at her wedding reception'' might not be a good idea. She wants it, so he obliges.
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* {{Jerkass}}: John, though whether he has a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Heart of Gold]] or a [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Heart of Jerk]] is tough to say. He gripes about money a lot and is pretty impatient with Justine and unsympathetic toward her illness. But he lets Claire take care of her and occasionally has a kind word to say. His intellect shields him from fear of Melancholia, and he does his best to keep his wife and child from being afraid, too... [[spoiler:but when that gets flipped around and he becomes certain that the rogue planet will indeed strike the Earth, he commits a supreme act of selfishness and cowardice by killing himself, leaving Claire to deal with that, their child, and their impending doom alone.]]
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* DisabilitySuperpower: The clinically depressed main character is apparently omniscient.
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* FromBadToWorse: In both parts of the movie: the wedding and the fly-by of Melancholia.
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* ItGotWorse: In both parts of the movie: the wedding and the fly-by of Melancholia.
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* NightmareFuel: The opening sequence
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''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by LarsVonTrier. It mainly focuses on the relationship between the [[SiblingYinYang two sisters Justine and Claire]], played by KirstenDunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The movie is divided into two parts, the first about the Justine's wedding, the second about the upcoming fly-by of the rogue planet [[DoubleMeaningTitle Melancholia]] that's drifting through the solar system. The focus lies on how the characters relate to the events surrounding them, from the mundane event of a wedding to the possibility of a planetary collision.
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''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by LarsVonTrier.Creator/LarsVonTrier. It mainly focuses on the relationship between the [[SiblingYinYang two sisters Justine and Claire]], played by KirstenDunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The movie is divided into two parts, the first about the Justine's wedding, the second about the upcoming fly-by of the rogue planet [[DoubleMeaningTitle Melancholia]] that's drifting through the solar system. The focus lies on how the characters relate to the events surrounding them, from the mundane event of a wedding to the possibility of a planetary collision.
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* ApocalypticMontage: [[spoiler:The movie opens with a [[RichardWagner dramatic]] montage depicting events leading up to the collision.]]
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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: Justine offers one to her nephew when she suggests they'll be safe in a special shelter.]]
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* MoralityPet: Justine's nephew to Justine.
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* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately.
** In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybies of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth a second time.
** In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybies of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth a second time.
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* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately.
**accurately. In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybies flybys of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth a second time.Earth.
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** In a nutsell: Melancholia couldn't have hidden behind the sun without being visible for very long, it couldn't have concealed Arcturus for more than a few moments, it couldn't have done flybies of three solar system objects in a row, and it certainly could not do a U-turn in empty space to hit Earth a second time.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Justine has hers during her wedding, where she completely breaks down. [[spoiler: Claire has hers when she realities the Earth is doomed. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled John as well.]]]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: Justine has hers during her wedding, where she completely breaks down. [[spoiler: Claire has hers when she realities realizes the Earth is doomed. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled John as well.]]]]
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Everyone in the film uses their natural accent, so it's not clear where the film takes place. Claire and Justine are sisters with British parents, but Dunst as Justine uses her American accent. She works for a Danish man who has a newphew with an American accent. The resort's butler is Danish butler and the wedding as a German planner. Claire is married to an American man and their child has an American accent.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Everyone in the film uses their natural accent, so it's not clear where the film takes place. Claire and Justine are sisters with British parents, but Dunst as Justine uses her American accent. She works for a Danish man who has a newphew with an American accent. The resort's butler is Danish butler and the wedding as a German planner. Claire is married to an American man and their child has an American accent.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard and Udo Kier.
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* PluckyComicRelief: a rather mild example, [[TrueArtIsAngsty considering the rest of the movie]], in the wedding planner who refuses to look at the bride.
* DirtyOldMan: Justine and Claire's father, played by John Hurt, shamelessly hits on two younger women for the entire wedding. His note implies that he ditched his daughter to go sleep with one of them.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Justine and her husband are hours late to their own wedding, much to the chagrin of her sister.
** "Justine, sometimes I hate you so much."
** Switched near the end [[spoiler: Clair tries to escape the island, then wants to have a sappy "last tea time" sort of thing and finally completely breaks down while Justine remains calm and builds a "magic cave" to give her nephew a hope spot.]]
** They seem to take after their parents: Mom appears to be depressed ''and'' angry but [[spoiler: at least responds to Justine when things start going wrong and remains at the house the morning after the wedding calmly doing yoga]] while Dad seems relatively normal and happy but [[spoiler: leaves the party just after as things go south]].
* ForegoneConclusion
** "Justine, sometimes I hate you so much."
** Switched near the end [[spoiler: Clair tries to escape the island, then wants to have a sappy "last tea time" sort of thing and finally completely breaks down while Justine remains calm and builds a "magic cave" to give her nephew a hope spot.]]
** They seem to take after their parents: Mom appears to be depressed ''and'' angry but [[spoiler: at least responds to Justine when things start going wrong and remains at the house the morning after the wedding calmly doing yoga]] while Dad seems relatively normal and happy but [[spoiler: leaves the party just after as things go south]].
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Justine and her husband are hours late to their own wedding, much to Claire is the chagrin of her sister.
** "Justine, sometimes I hate you so much."
** Switched near the end [[spoiler: Clair tries to escape the island, then wants to have a sappy "last tea time" sort of thing and finally completely breaks downnormal, straight-laced one, while Justine remains calm is a manic-depressive and builds a "magic cave" to give her nephew a hope spot.]]
** They seem tooften cannot take after their parents: Mom appears to be depressed ''and'' angry but [[spoiler: at least responds to care of herself.
* ForegoneConclusion: Melancholia hits Earth.
* FreudianExcuse: Justinewhen things start may have inherited mental illness from her parents. Her mother is a bitter woman and her father is a lech who might be going wrong and remains at the house the morning after the wedding calmly doing yoga]] while Dad seems relatively normal and happy but [[spoiler: leaves the party just after as things go south]].
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* HowWeGotHere
HowWeGotHere: The ending is shown in the opening montage so that the audience won't be distracted by whether or not Melancholia will hit the Earth.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Everybody dies and nobody resolves anything]].
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* ArtShift: A literal one -- Justine changes all the displayed art books from cheerful abstracts to scenes of death and, well, melancholia.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Justine offers one to her nephew when she suggests they'll be safe in a special shelter.]]
* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: Justine offers one to her nephew when she suggests they'll be safe in a special shelter.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:[-"[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Life is only on Earth. And not for long.]]"-] ]]
''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by LarsVonTrier. It mainly focuses on the relationship between the [[SiblingYinYang two sisters Justine and Claire]], played by KirstenDunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The movie is divided into two parts, the first about the Justine's wedding, the second about the upcoming fly-by of the rogue planet [[DoubleMeaningTitle Melancholia]] that's drifting through the solar system. The focus lies on how the characters relate to the events surrounding them, from the mundane event of a wedding to the possibility of a planetary collision.
Like Von Trier's [[Film/AntiChrist previous movie]], '' Melancholia'' was surrounded by some consternation at the Cannes Film Festival. Von Trier's jokes about AdolfHitler and NaziGermany resulted in him being declared a ''[[DudeNotFunny persona non grata]]''. Dunst's performance was praised, however, and she walked away with the Best Actress Award.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlienSky: Once Melancholia appears in the sky, things turn eerie.
* [[spoiler:ApocalypticMontage: The movie opens with a [[RichardWagner dramatic]] montage depicting events leading up to the collision.]]
* ArtShift: A literal one -- Justine changes all the displayed art books from cheerful abstracts to scenes of death and, well, melancholia.
* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Claire stashes away a bottle of pills should the worst come to pass. Her husband scoffs at her for this. [[spoiler:He ends up up using them first.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: "Is everyone in your family stark raving mad?"
* BlessedWithSuck: Von Trier basically explores the idea how people with depression can function better than other under certain circumstances.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The opening montage shows Earth crashing into Melancholia. The movie ends with a view from the surface.]]
* TheCassandra: Justine.
* PluckyComicRelief: a rather mild example, [[TrueArtIsAngsty considering the rest of the movie]], in the wedding planner who refuses to look at the bride.
* [[spoiler: ColonyDrop: Earth eventually smashes into the much larger Melancholia.]]
* CosmicPlaything: As recognized by Justine.
* CounterEarth
* CrapsackWorld
-->'''Justine''': The Earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for her.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied when Justine is bathing in Melancholia's light.
* DespairEventHorizon: Justine has hers during her wedding, where she completely breaks down. [[spoiler: Claire has hers when she realities the Earth is doomed. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled John as well.]]]]
* DownerEnding: Trier himself taglined the film with "No more happy endings!" That's saying something!
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Either Claire or Justine.
* [[spoiler: EarthShatteringKaboom]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justine slowly falls apart during her wedding. In the bathtub she is almost catatonic.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Justine and her husband are hours late to their own wedding, much to the chagrin of her sister.
** "Justine, sometimes I hate you so much."
** Switched near the end [[spoiler: Clair tries to escape the island, then wants to have a sappy "last tea time" sort of thing and finally completely breaks down while Justine remains calm and builds a "magic cave" to give her nephew a hope spot.]]
** They seem to take after their parents: Mom appears to be depressed ''and'' angry but [[spoiler: at least responds to Justine when things start going wrong and remains at the house the morning after the wedding calmly doing yoga]] while Dad seems relatively normal and happy but [[spoiler: leaves the party just after as things go south]].
* ForegoneConclusion
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The star Antares is no longer visible in the sky.
* HeyItsThatGuy: John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard and Udo Kier.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Justine offers one to her nephew when she suggests they'll be safe in a special shelter.]]
* HowWeGotHere
* ImportantHairCut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After the wedding, before going completely catatonic Justine chops off her hair.
* ItGotWorse: In both parts of the movie: the wedding and the fly-by of Melancholia.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]
* MelancholyMoon: Melancholia is this TurnedUpToEleven, especially to Justine.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Claire's realisation that Melancholia is coming back around after its fly-by.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Von Trier got the idea for the movie while being treated for depression. Kirsten Dunst had also suffered from depression prior to the movie.
* RightThroughHisPants
* RunawayBride: Not so much running away as falling apart at the seams.
* SexForSolace
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]
* SiblingYinYang: Basically the central focus of the movie.
** [[RuleOfSymbolism Further highlighted]] in that Justine is blonde and Claire has black hair.
* StepfordSmiler: Justine at her wedding.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Justine and Claire's mom. She thinks everything about the wedding (including the guests, her family, and the very tradition of weddings) is stupid, and when she sneaks off to take a bath in the middle of the reception (coincidentally at the same time as Justine) she notes that (paraphrased) "I wasn't there for her first execration, I wasn't there for her first intercourse, and I don't need to be here for this". At one point Claire quietly wonders why she even came.
* ThousandYardStare: Justine.
* UnableToCry: Justine only starts to cry when she's comforting her nephew.
* WeirdMoon: Melancholia, again.
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[[caption-width-right:300:[-"[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Life is only on Earth. And not for long.]]"-] ]]
''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by LarsVonTrier. It mainly focuses on the relationship between the [[SiblingYinYang two sisters Justine and Claire]], played by KirstenDunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The movie is divided into two parts, the first about the Justine's wedding, the second about the upcoming fly-by of the rogue planet [[DoubleMeaningTitle Melancholia]] that's drifting through the solar system. The focus lies on how the characters relate to the events surrounding them, from the mundane event of a wedding to the possibility of a planetary collision.
Like Von Trier's [[Film/AntiChrist previous movie]], '' Melancholia'' was surrounded by some consternation at the Cannes Film Festival. Von Trier's jokes about AdolfHitler and NaziGermany resulted in him being declared a ''[[DudeNotFunny persona non grata]]''. Dunst's performance was praised, however, and she walked away with the Best Actress Award.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlienSky: Once Melancholia appears in the sky, things turn eerie.
* [[spoiler:ApocalypticMontage: The movie opens with a [[RichardWagner dramatic]] montage depicting events leading up to the collision.]]
* ArtShift: A literal one -- Justine changes all the displayed art books from cheerful abstracts to scenes of death and, well, melancholia.
* ArtisticLicenceAstronomy: Von Trier has mentioned he was never interested in depicting the astronomical events accurately.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Claire stashes away a bottle of pills should the worst come to pass. Her husband scoffs at her for this. [[spoiler:He ends up up using them first.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: "Is everyone in your family stark raving mad?"
* BlessedWithSuck: Von Trier basically explores the idea how people with depression can function better than other under certain circumstances.
* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The opening montage shows Earth crashing into Melancholia. The movie ends with a view from the surface.]]
* TheCassandra: Justine.
* PluckyComicRelief: a rather mild example, [[TrueArtIsAngsty considering the rest of the movie]], in the wedding planner who refuses to look at the bride.
* [[spoiler: ColonyDrop: Earth eventually smashes into the much larger Melancholia.]]
* CosmicPlaything: As recognized by Justine.
* CounterEarth
* CrapsackWorld
-->'''Justine''': The Earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for her.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied when Justine is bathing in Melancholia's light.
* DespairEventHorizon: Justine has hers during her wedding, where she completely breaks down. [[spoiler: Claire has hers when she realities the Earth is doomed. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled John as well.]]]]
* DownerEnding: Trier himself taglined the film with "No more happy endings!" That's saying something!
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Either Claire or Justine.
* [[spoiler: EarthShatteringKaboom]]
* EmotionlessGirl: Justine slowly falls apart during her wedding. In the bathtub she is almost catatonic.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Played with. Justine and her husband are hours late to their own wedding, much to the chagrin of her sister.
** "Justine, sometimes I hate you so much."
** Switched near the end [[spoiler: Clair tries to escape the island, then wants to have a sappy "last tea time" sort of thing and finally completely breaks down while Justine remains calm and builds a "magic cave" to give her nephew a hope spot.]]
** They seem to take after their parents: Mom appears to be depressed ''and'' angry but [[spoiler: at least responds to Justine when things start going wrong and remains at the house the morning after the wedding calmly doing yoga]] while Dad seems relatively normal and happy but [[spoiler: leaves the party just after as things go south]].
* ForegoneConclusion
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The star Antares is no longer visible in the sky.
* HeyItsThatGuy: John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgard and Udo Kier.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Justine offers one to her nephew when she suggests they'll be safe in a special shelter.]]
* HowWeGotHere
* ImportantHairCut / ExpositoryHairstyleChange: After the wedding, before going completely catatonic Justine chops off her hair.
* ItGotWorse: In both parts of the movie: the wedding and the fly-by of Melancholia.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]
* MelancholyMoon: Melancholia is this TurnedUpToEleven, especially to Justine.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Claire's realisation that Melancholia is coming back around after its fly-by.]]
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Von Trier got the idea for the movie while being treated for depression. Kirsten Dunst had also suffered from depression prior to the movie.
* RightThroughHisPants
* RunawayBride: Not so much running away as falling apart at the seams.
* SexForSolace
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog]]
* SiblingYinYang: Basically the central focus of the movie.
** [[RuleOfSymbolism Further highlighted]] in that Justine is blonde and Claire has black hair.
* StepfordSmiler: Justine at her wedding.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Justine and Claire's mom. She thinks everything about the wedding (including the guests, her family, and the very tradition of weddings) is stupid, and when she sneaks off to take a bath in the middle of the reception (coincidentally at the same time as Justine) she notes that (paraphrased) "I wasn't there for her first execration, I wasn't there for her first intercourse, and I don't need to be here for this". At one point Claire quietly wonders why she even came.
* ThousandYardStare: Justine.
* UnableToCry: Justine only starts to cry when she's comforting her nephew.
* WeirdMoon: Melancholia, again.
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