" Why is there so much sadness and too much sorrow in this world? Is happiness just a concept? Is living just a process to measure man's pain? Are we ever going to see each other again? I'm not afraid of death. I'm more afraid that I will not see you again. '"
These words, which may be the motto of the entire film, Renato writes on the panic flight into his diary when he is at the film's hunted in the forests of Mindoro as a left activist of military units. But this when we are already over 7 hours in the film, at the very end of this eight-hour long movie monster. It should start at the beginning ...
MELANCHOLIA is a movie where at the beginning several Person absent or have disappeared. These are missing, wanted, mourned. Zone: Sagada, a small town in which meets casually the newly arrived prostitutes Alberta (Angeli Bayani) on the pimp Julian (Perry Dizon), which then make their city by tail curves also meet the pleading for charity nun Rina (Malaya Cruz). Julian is interested in contacting her, she tries to integrate into its machinations, one imagines violence in the air. Julian himself earned his money with the staging of live sex shows for tourists, including a local couple is at his disposal. Where the film wants to go, allows himself to say at all at home after the first two hours. It rains all the time.
In the second part of the coarse members adjustable in three parts of film, we are weeks later, again in Manila, in a writer and filmmaker and a head teacher. Amazingly, these figures are the same people as expressed in Sagada. One learns that Julian and Alberta are members of a left terrorist cell that was immersed in Sagada with false identities - even to cope with the loss of their loved ones cope (Julian misses his wife Patricia). Rina but the nun, is now gone. Panic makes to Alberta in search of her, of which Julian will first hear of it. In a second narrative thread, Alberta is looking for their Adotivtochter Hannah, who ran away from home is. They entered service with a few other girls as Straßenhure. Julian, meanwhile, wanders through the city, comes in a big rain and breaks down emotionally, played fantastically by a river under a gray concrete bridge.
are the third part of the film we are in a subordinate prologue in which, as already mentioned, is about the hunt for the activists. Renato Alberta is so far gone as understood, husband.
the Aesthetics: Diaz works with digital camera, in black and white, without extradiegatische score and long shots. With very long shots. The first of the film takes a good 8 minutes, and subsequently settles it between 6 and 12 minutes. The camera is mostly static: one sees a picture, a scene and will spend the next few minutes there. The actors bertreten the scene, go down, play through without cuts.
The effect on the audience is unique. Once you overcome the first hurdle, the movie actually feels like to do justice to life, it goes on completely in it. It sucks the scenes to himself, looks around, can literally "see enough." The initially feared Arthouse, many often used as a synonym for boredom is, will not start. If we get involved in the stillness of the film, every movement is an event, each Authentic conversation, within the contemplation of each section into a sensation.
MELANCHOLIA is a film, which concerns the loss of people to search for a form of personal terms with the past. This plays into the political and social reality in which people have the same deal in their role as a rebel with her martyr status. That the film still appeals to many more issues, of course by itself - but I am not able to gather these bundled and conclusive. MELANCHOLIA me so far was a totally new cinematic vision, experience and experience (in which film and life overlap). As for me even a bit puzzled: I miss him already and would like them to look right again.
very end, in a kind of epilogue, Alberta is running at nighttime river. It is believed that she was again looking for Hannah. But this is wrong. Asks the passer-by Julian, who is now also among the missing. All you encountered people appear to be in a trance to find and make funny movements. When she finally finds Julian dirty, sitting in the mud at the river, said that Julian is not to be. Julian has now become a god, the god of melancholy. Then he walks away.
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