In Melancholia, 678 has a clearly disturbing meaning to the person that hears it at a disastrous wedding

How about the preceding numbers? Heres what I got...

1+2+3+4+5= 15

6+7+8= 21

36

So, doom will take place on the 36th of Decembertober

Op the woman in the film is not Justine's mother in law, she is her sister.

I have no idea what the number represented other than proving to her sister that she truly "knew" things that no one else did.

As far as a summery goes I think Dunst just "knows" doom is coming and for once in her life she feels connected to it and alive.

I think she is embracing the end because it brings some kind of peace with it, a finality if you will.

She believes humans are evil and should not be allowed to live on.

I'm sure some of us could agree with that.

I'm sure many of us here at Glp are like her in the sense that no one listens to what we truly believe.

Claire on the other hand is like many of today's sheeple.

She lives her life as if nothing bad can ever happen and when faced with approaching doom, relies on her husband's beliefs.

Right up until the end she denies it will happen but in the back of her mind is a big "what if?"

I think that is how our end will come.

We will have one group saying that because of their education and knowledge it will not happen.

Then another group will follow them because they need someone to do their thinking and worrying for them.

Then you have the smallest group, the ones many think are insane, that actually know doom approaches but no one listens to them.

Just my 2 cents worth lol

yea but she was a shallow bitch for fucking that other dude on her wedding day

When Justine hears the number was 678 in the bean lottery, she is reminded that the website she looked at that said Melancholia will hit earth in a "dance with death" had a numerical order in which Melancholia would orbit the earth , pass it by, and in steps 6, 7, and 8 it will begin to come back around in a collision course toward earth.
I think her subconscious registered this memory when she initially heard the number.
Later in part 2 when her anxiety is building she looks at the website again that talks about the "dance with death" that's when we the audience actually see the steps 6, 7, and 8 on the website that she prints out. these 3 steps mark the turning of melancholia back towards earth.

I think the movie is about end time prophecy contained in revelation

678-666=12

666 2012

Shallow seems to be the wrong word. She was caught up in a wedding at a time when she is getting a strong inner sense of impending doom. She suddenly doesn't care that she is marrying some smart upright guy, or about her great job when the world is coming to an end. She is taken over by a sense of carelessness, after all if you "knew" something was deadly impending might you not care about protocals or ettiquette? Good movie, depressing, but good. Just have to get past the first 20 minutes to get into it.

In AD 678 was the fall of Constantinople.

I FINALLY got around to watching this movie! It's not meant for people that watch American Idol, or can't wait to buy the newest(______place consumer product here). It's many levels above those IQ deficient animals that seem to breed WAY too quickly.
In my opinion, and in addition to the great review on page one of this thread, I gathered that it was about BREAKING FREE from THE CHAINS of order, ritual, and slavery of religion(including slavery of capitalism). Once this system dies, a new beginning arises.
Everyone constantly battles their social status within this hierarchy, yet in reality, your reality, you must decide what YOU wish to become and not what this current "shitcan of a society" expects from you to perpetuate the "norm".

Basically, empower yourself, and BECOME GOD!

Gosh..its not the number..its simbolic..they are spilling the beans in the movie
In my opinion

Thats why she says throw them out....SPILL EM

Apocalypse in English Gematria Equals: 678


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