![]() ![]() The planet Melancholia is on a collision course with the Earth. In the film, the Danish director seems to be constructing an argument which not only “questions the value of life” (Nietzsche) but also invites us to change our status from “mortals to moribund beings” (Cioran). Cioran, and poets such as Charles Baudelaire, Maurice Rollinat and Lautréamont. Lars von Trier’s latest movie Melancholia (2011) could be interpreted as a logical consequence of the history of European nihilism, whose most significant proponents were the philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and E.M. Martin Heidegger, Der Spiegel interview, 1966 “We don’t need an atom bomb at all the uprooting of human beings is already taking place … It is no longer an Earth on which human beings live today.” ![]() SUBSCRIBE NOW Films Melancholia Stefan Bolea takes us on a tour of European nihilism. ![]()
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