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Mourning and Melancholia

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The First Half of the Movie Is Really Good

Mourning is the loss of investment in the world, and melancholy is the lossof investment in the self or the ego. The person whose mourning finds that the world is no longer adequate, whereas in melancholia, it's something about one's self that seems worthless and inadequate. So i wonder if th even, the film melancholia is about the turn from from it's almost like the film melancholyis the turn for melancholia of morning, right? Morning in the opposite direction,. Like that that. And maybe that what a like, if it's your own death, there's a kind of melancholia attached to it. But if it's the death of everything, then it can just

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