Because of sadness, there is cinema.
A film regarding identity, sadness and the struggles of man.
Lav Diaz has frequently talked about the human condition in his films. In Melancholia, this is made manifest.
Diaz presents to us three individuals who had been wrought by grief. The three individuals cope with the grief through a maddening disillusionment of their own selves, pretending to be something they aren't.
Sadness is the ultimate reality humans live by, we cannot disillusion ourselves from it. It is inevitable.
Diaz's film is incredibly thought-provoking through the characters' reflection, their struggles, moral compass or more precisely, their entire lives as a whole.
Through the constant and rampant nature of sadness, it does not merely wrought upon negative phenomena but rather a change, now reborn.
This world is hell, sister!
Diaz makes us understand the real world and the struggle of man, in their morality and their own individual minds. The world is rampant with suffering, abuse and war. Yet, the film shows us the three individuals attempting to disillusion themselves from the suffering that is creeping in their lives that is the ultimate cause of their extreme sadness.
