She knows precisely how many beans are in the jar -like those who called the top of the Dow Jones index, at 12807 exactly. Having a damaged soul, she suffers from a disorder of perception - she sees things as they actually are. Herself untouched by affect, by human assimilation or persuasion, she writes the killer tag lines which manipulate others. Justine, being incapable of happiness, is therefore incapable of illusion. While Melancholia and Earth act out their dance of death gravity, the most ineluctable force in the universe, does its work. Leaders and experts sit mesmerised and powerless, making reassuring noises, or setting aside puny provisions taking shelter in denial or custom. More than just an economic crisis, or even the end of Western capitalism, or the American Century, or of Europe - though it is all that - it is the consummation in fire of all we have ever known. In 2, 10 or 100 years this will be manifestly THE film of 2011, capturing as it does this precise historical moment, on the cusp of epochs. It ends in Gottedammerung, the destruction of the world. She is the white goddess, Diana bathing, la Belle Dame Sans Merci, Cassandra tormented by futurity.
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