Saw Melancholia last night. Phenomenal. My first Lars in a movie theater. And this is a movie theater movie. It should be seen big because it is big. But its bigness is intimate. It expands inside, it presses down on the lungs stealing air, making it hard to breathe. Just as the blue planet makes it hard to breathe.
This is an interior movie. It is about interiority. The interior externalized. I have been reading some Seneca this term, among other things. I am intrigued by the idea of the external world caught up and involved in internal experience. I think Lars has read Seneca. This movie approaches something of a Senecan tragedy.

But then, this sort of thing is done in many movies. Rain, dark skies and sad parts.