Your perception of this film and your emotional/mental predisposition

I gathered immediately from the title that this wasn't going to be a science fiction movie, and I held off for a while because that's just how I function. I finally ran out of reasons not to see it and let it happen.

Just as I suspected, it set up a whole field of nails and hit every single one of them. As far as allegories go, this one is among the best. I find it very interesting that not only did they capture the symptoms of depression but the reactions of people who don't understand it.

I've had a hand in all the chronic depressive categories at one point or another. Sometimes I don't really know I'm in one until after a long duration of it. Commonly in the colder months I become a lot more reflective and despondent.

i hold this film in high regard mainly because of the point of view setting;

posh wedding, no money spared (wishes that are expressed by character who wants to know if his expenditure of an-arm-and-a-leg-amount-of-money has been finally able to buy someone happiness),
tagline ulcers flying around, nearly every character has their head so high up their butts,
character who wants to sit in garden sipping wine, listening to music because she wanted (the collision apparently) to be nice,
husband who kills himself mainly because he doesn't have to put up with all the imaginable future hysteric scenarios that would come from his wife who is cocooned in her small world, her small dreams and would expect him to do something to save their insignificant selves...
the lifestyle that they thought would be essential to their survival such as extravagant homes, 18 hole golf courses, horses, rise to power and wealth and all that crap, shattered by another planet colliding with them...
i can honestly say that even if i may have had traces of melancholy, this film has scoured them away.
and if i had to choose, i would be very happy if a smaller planet would collide with earth. earth's mass and core would grow giving earth a faster heartbeat and considerably higher longevity and life would start again in a billion year or two.
i welcome this

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This is a very interesting topic.

1. Yes. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.
2. Yes. I am very prone to melancholy, and I am also mentally ill.

The film is average.

I've had depression for 12 years. Very prone to melancholy.

Couldn't identify with Justine at all. People love to glorify it, say 'oh yes, that's exactly what depression is like' - that's all crap. On top of having depression, Justine is a terrible person. Depression does not cause you to treat others like she did. It does not cause you to cheat on your husband on your wedding night.

People love to glorify depression, make out that it's worse than cancer. They love to say they don't have any choice in the things they do because they are sick. That's a weak person talking. What Justine made were weak choices. Not in the way she could barely walk or do anything, but the way she treated others. Her husband and her sister were very supportive of her the whole way through, but she treated them like *beep*

1. Yes

2. No. I'm choleric.

I'm scared of the middle place between light and nowhere

1. Yes, it's my favorite film.
2. Yes.

“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”

I liked the film very much, I do not suffer currently from depression, however I went through a period of postpartum depression and it was one of the most difficult periods of my life. I felt completely disconnected from everyone, worse of all I knew I was supposed to be happy, I just gave birth to twins. However, all I could do was go through my daily routine - caring for my babies, my young son in a robotic manner, never feeling as connected as should I have. My children were cared for properly, however I kept feeling inept and like they deserved better.

It wasn't until I was able to say the words to my Doctor and admit to my family what was going on that things started improving. I entered a support group and realized I wasn't alone in my feelings, I had felt so isolated and like I was doing something wrong. Prior to getting help, there were days getting out of bed was a struggle and if I didn't have newborn babies and a young son, I probably wouldn't have.

Needless to say I can completely relate to Justine, at least her feelings of isolation depicted in the film, how in the first part of movie she would she tried to show the outward appearance of happiness, when in reality it was just facade and it was bound to break.