History Film / Melancholia

** '''Claire:''' "Sometimes, I really hate you, Justine."

** JerkassWoobie: Justine, being aloof towards her new husband and cheating on him on their wedding night. Plus some of the things she says to her sister, including [[spoiler:mocking her plea of how to spend their final hour and making Claire do it her own way.]]

** Justine herself, being horrible to her new husband and cheating on him. Plus some of the things she says to her sister, including [[spoiler:mocking her plea of how to spend their final hour and making Claire do it her own way.]]

* AbusiveParents: Gaby has nothing nice to say about Justine. She wants Justine to be more like Claire. (When?)

** Gaby. She's the reason why Justine is depressed. See Abusive Parent. (Says who?)

* 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.
* ThematicSeries: Part of the "Depression" Trilogy with ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' and ''[[Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}''.

* {{Utsuge}}: In movie form.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty much breaks the scale on the cynicism side. It doesn't really matter that the world is going to end and possibly all life in the universe will be extinguished; Life is so shitty and devoid of meaning that it's a good, perhaps even beautiful thing.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty much breaks the scale on the cynicism side. Life is so shitty and devoid of meaning that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and the extinguishing of all life in the universe is supposed to be a beautiful thing.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismAndCynicism: Pretty much breaks the scale on the cynicism side. Life is so shitty and devoid of meaning that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is supposed to be a beautiful thing.

''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by 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 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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[[caption-width-right:300:[-"[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Life is only on Earth. And not for long.]]"-] ]]

* 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.

* AbusiveParents: Gaby has nothing nice to say about Justine. She wants Justine to be more like Claire.

** Gaby. She's the reason why Justine is depressed. See Abusive Parent.

* 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.]]

* 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 Antares for more than a few moments, and even a flyby could 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]]

* FanDisservice: A naked ''KirstenDunst'' may sound good, but giving what her character's going through and also the tone of the film, the nude scenes are not supposed to be sexy. You have to give credit for Kirsten going further than she's ever been in her career, though.

''Melancholia'' is a 2011 SpeculativeFiction film written and directed by 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.

** Justine's boss, Jack who keeps pestering her to give him the tagline for the company, rather than feeling happy that one of his employees is getting married. He only came to the wedding was to get that tagline.

* DeadpanSnarker: Justine turns into this when she hears Claire's plan:
--> I think your plan is a piece of shit. Why don't we meet on the fucking toilet.