Despite the fact that it depicts the last 24 hours on
Earth and is directed by Lars von Trier, Melancholia is not as pessimistic as
you'd think, he says. "I find something beautifully poetical in the
attitude of the main person, Justine, played by Kirsten Dunst, this inner
peace, how she accepts this."
You could even read it as a kind of optimism, he argues.
"If you really want to do something good for society, if you want to avoid
all totalitarian threats and so on, you basically should go . . . we should all
go to this, let me call it--although I’m a total materialist--fundamentally
spiritual experience of accepting that at some day everything will finish, that
at any point the end may be near. I think that, quite on the contrary of what
may appear, this can be a deep experience which pushes you to strengthen
ethical activity." The result is not fatalistic hedonism, but a kind of
profound engagement with the meaning and significance of life.
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