I love Lars von Trier's films very much, and Melancholia occupies a special place among them because of its existential focus. But here I don’t want to talk about the fear of death and its influence on the attitude towards life. I would like to share the metaphor of counseling that arose associatively while watching the film. So, behind the Earth (more precisely, behind the side on which I am not) there is another planet - Melancholia. Since she is on the other side, I don’t see her, and only something incomprehensible, inexplicably happening to the Earth betrays her presence. It is not known, it is sensed vaguely and implicitly. In this image, the Earth symbolizes the course of my life, accessible to consciousness. At the same time, the side of the Earth where I am now (“the visible part”) can be interpreted as a current idea of ​​myself, and the other side of the Earth as something that I probably don’t know about myself, but can allow into my consciousness without destroying the usual image me. Melancholy symbolizes unconscious, deep-seated fear, and its presence is revealed by irrational anxiety, for which we, with enviable persistence, try to find successive rational explanations one after another. Consultation sets in motion this planetary relationship, and Melancholia begins to move towards the “visible part” of the Earth. In other words, deep-seated fear in the process of work becomes accessible to awareness. However, in this movement, Melancholy, entering the “visible part” of the Earth, takes away part of the atmosphere so that it becomes difficult to breathe, and eclipses the Sun. The shadow cast by this planet covers the entire Earth and it plunges into darkness. Difficulty breathing means an increase in anxiety, and the image of Melancholy eclipsing the Sun symbolizes the following: in the process of realizing deep-seated fear, a person begins to understand the significance of the event that gave rise to fear for his life. Moreover, the event is seen exclusively in a negative way, as something that spoiled a person and made his life irreversibly terrible, and the person himself powerless and suffering. Awareness of a traumatic event is accompanied by very strong feelings of pain and loneliness. However, further in the process of work, the movement of the planet continues, and now it begins its movement from the Earth. (Here in my imagination the scenario of the flight of Melancholy was realized) Removing Melancholy symbolizes the reduction of fear through its understanding and acceptance. So, the shadow disappears, the Sun opens, light and warmth fill a person’s life again with the significant, in my opinion, difference that now a feeling of liberation, freedom appears, and that frightening and life-poisoning event finally becomes a thing of the past.