Melancholia: the intimate apocalypse and anxiety
Melancholia | Lars von Trier | 2011
Roger Mas Soler

Abstract

This article examines the behaviour of the main character of Melancholia in the first part of the film from the theories of anxiety that Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger formulate in The Concept of Anxiety and in Being and Time. The aim is to enrich the analysis of the film interpreting it from a theoretical framework that, without excluding melancholy, explains Justine’s conflict from the reflection on existence. And in doing so, as the other side of the same coin, is intended to present Melancholia as a cinematographic representation of anxiety.

Key Words: Anxiety | Freedom | Melancholia | Kierkegaard | Heidegger | Trier

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Melancholia: el apocalipsis íntimo y la angustia


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