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Melancholia (2008) Lav Diaz

A just be we need and everything is deserted .

Since a few years ago is producing an interesting "earthquake" film part of Southeast Asia, as witnessed by filmmakers with an undoubted talent Indonesian Garin Nugroho , Cambodian Rithy Panh , the Malaysian James Lee and Tan Chui Mui or Filipinos Raya Martin and Lav Diaz , among many others, that bring us interesting proposals, radical and provocative , which have nothing to do with the mere exotic oriental or the fad of a few names.

"But how can you feel the time a plane?. The sensitivity arises whether after the event visible reflects a specific and important truth. When clear and clearly recognizes that what seen in this plane is not limited to that which is represented visibly [...]". know if Lav Diaz is knowledgeable Tarkovsky film or have read Sculpting time, but Melancholia filipino director leads until the paroxysm many of the principles that Soviet filmmaker put in writing in his famous book.

And is that time becomes a key element of the film, not only for the duration 450 minutes, but by the way in which Diaz your camera is fixed, static most of the time, collecting endless "dead time", daily actions, silence and hope that they merely reveal the gloom and sadness of characters who fail to overcome the loss of their loved ones.

Godard's dream was to fiction movies were like documentaries, Lav Diaz create us get the feeling that attending to call documentary film observational character, in many instances it seems impossible that what we see is a fiction, a representation orchestrated by someone who the actors are acting or that there is a default script.

"A just be our fault and everything is deserted," said Alphonse Lamartine of . Characters circulating Melancholia, convey a feeling of sadness, dejection, caused by a disappearance of their families and loved ones, instigated by a government 5 years ago, to eliminate Culqui hint of opposition, had made a clean dissidents. Nothing seems to give comfort to either Julian , Alberta or characters will be others who want to try to overcome the loss and the disappearance of their relatives. Fleeing for their lives forget the drama of which are prisoners. But the drama of the missing, is a permanent mourning. A melancholy that is enhanced by the futility of the search , and remorse have been able to do something else. A remorse not only increases the certainty of irreversibility time.

A woman sings a heartbreaking song a cappella in the middle of the jungle: "The air is cold , the heart is cold, the sky is fragile, the song fades, I seek, I seek, I seek when the night calls and heat relents, taking time remember it forever. The advent of pain caused by anxiety, stay beside me, a reminder of your presence. " . Patricia Julian's wife appears as a ghost, lonely twice reciting these verses that they may appear as synopsis of this monumental film.