This is the frigid, hard - to - embrace cinematic opposite of a feel - good movie, in fact — all wrapped in one long, dark
metaphor for depression.
Melancholia — Is there a better
metaphor for depression than an entire planet crashing into Earth, rendering every pointless and everyone worthless?
It's also a brilliantly assembled
metaphor for depression in dark times..
Not exact matches
I have always wondered if it is all a big
metaphor for clinical
depression, because its so accurate.
While far from subtle, von Trier's use of an apocalyptic event as a
metaphor for the nature of
depression is an apt one.
Even the cutesy visual gags become stronger once Dean decamps
for Hollywood — the sight of Dean tugging his roller suitcase through the sands of a Santa Monica beach is an incisively succinct
metaphor for the yoke of
depression.
In exquisite detail, and full of wonderful
metaphors and moment - by - moment description of the process of therapy, it will become required reading
for all therapists who seek to help people find a way through their struggles with
depression.