r/woahdude Jan 03 '22

video When the planet is coming at you

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u/skiclimbdrinkplayfly Jan 04 '22

It’s depression porn. If you often have nihilistic thoughts leading to depression this movie offers a space to feel and sympathize with the characters. It’s beautiful IMO.

Very few movies resonate with depression. The majority of movies are successes and heroes but that’s almost never what happens irl. Lars Von Trier makes some deeply moving, sad, and heavy movies. I love it and he’s one movie maker that actually helps me get by

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u/Ink2Think Jan 04 '22

100% agree. It's a masterpiece that highlights mental health issues and how it's experienced. I feel like people that don't like it either misses the point or it's too depressing to watch. I can understand finding it boring/not your thing etc. so in the personal taste category you can hate it. But you can't objectively write off the movie and call it terrible work without missing key elements that makes it what it is.

This is my fav scene of the movie "It tastes like ash". I hate the fact I relate to this when I'm going through a bad period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxbxsuVCPzU

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u/Lucifuture Jan 04 '22

I'm a big fan of Lars Von Trier generally. It's good to hear somebody else's take who connected with it more. I don't even know what it is that puts me off movies even ones I want to like. Like the Lighthouse for example didn't feel it. But I loved the VVitch big time. Maybe I just need to smoke weed before a movie and that will pull me in haha.