Melancholy and Mourning in the Movie House of Cards

Abstract

Melancholy has been developed as a humanistic and medical term to describe the state of the human body and mind. In the Renaissance era, as the positive aspects of melancholy emerged, the thought and symbol of creativity and harmony of melancholy were emphasized. It can be found that the power of contemplation, harmony and creativity of melancholy like this has the power to dispel sadness and can be a trigger point that leads to mourning. In addition, humans have different ways of resolving sadness and melancholy experienced after loss, and the solution may be different from the way universal society refers to them. The way of expressing human melancholy and mourning from the creativity and diversity of melancholy can be in through the movie <House of Cards>. This movie looked at the sadness and depression that the protagonist, six-year-old Sally, suffers from the death of her father, from the perspective of Cubism, a multiple perspectives of the human environment and experience. In addition, this movie depicts the process of symbolizing the rearranged emotions and memories through the creativity of melancholy to complete the mourning. Accordingly, through the clues presented by the movie, I studied the sadness and melancholy that can not be expressed in words, the cracks and seeking of symbols caused by melancholy, and the mourning that consists in the creation of art as an implicit symbol.