Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
Very Bad Wizards
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Film Review - Is This a Good Movie for Depression?
This film really is two characters, you know, as the subtitles might might leatest. The portrayal of just a real ne dear of depression where you're just not a functional human being is very effective and hard to watch. John Hur maybe that's what what makes me like t certr. He's a very charming drunk ah ye. But he's like you. Now, he can't get himself to do the right thing, in the same way that she can't get herself to do anything, really. And then there's this haunting shot of her just sitting on all these piled up chairs after the reads the note that her father left. They go riding their horses through the clouds
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