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Melancholia
- Dec 25, 2019
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One of the oddest suicide movies I've watched is the 1997 low-key comedy-drama film Julian Po starring Christian Slater and Robin Tunney. The movie is about a man who brings new life to a small town by announcing that he's killing himself. It doesn't end the way anyone would think. The film ends with Julian walking out of town, dressed in a suit and tie, "supervised" by the town sheriff, mayor and barber so as to make sure he does not run away and carries through with his suicide plan. It is assumed that he kills himself shortly afterwards, fulfilling his dream of "going to the sea". One film critic suggests that it's a veiled comment on the costs of fame and celebrity suicides.