Melancholia

MELANCHOLIA is a 2011 film about depression and the end of the world.


 * Written and directed by Lars von Trier
 * Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling.
 * This is an English-language film by a Danish/Swedish/French/German consortium.

Justine

 * Close your eyes. Hold my hand.

Leo

 * It's a planet that has been hiding behind the sun. Now it passes by us.  It's called a flyby.

Dialogue

 * Claire: It'll pass us by tonight. John is quite calm about it.
 * Justine: Does that calm you down?
 * Claire: Yes, of course. Well, John studies things.  He always has.
 * Justine: The Earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it.
 * Claire: What?
 * Justine: Nobody will miss it.
 * Claire: But where would Leo grow up?
 * Justine: All I know is, life on Earth is evil.
 * Claire: There may be life somewhere else.
 * Justine: But there isn't.
 * Claire: How do you know?
 * Justine: Because I know things.
 * Claire: Oh yes, you always imagined you did.
 * Justine: I know we're alone.
 * Claire: I don't think you know that at all.
 * Justine: Six hundred and seventy eight. The bean lottery.  Nobody guessed the number of beans in the bottle.
 * Claire: No, that's right.
 * Justine: But I know. Six hundred and seventy eight.
 * Claire: Well, perhaps. But what does that prove?
 * Justine: That I know things. And when I say we're alone, we're alone.  Life is only on Earth.  And not for long.