Melancholie der Engel's length is close to 3 hours and that already says a lot about it. It's almost a miracle to watch a movie with 3 hours and find yourself interested till the end (or till half of it). To be sincere, most of the times 1 hour and a half is enough and this one is no exception. I think that if this movie had 1 hour length it would be so much better. Well, there is a lot of gore, guts, torture, sex, rape, pissing, shitting and violence to women. But there's also a lot of animal cruelty and killing and that's just sad. Cats, pigs, birds, insects and other animals couldn't escape from this one. I almost give up watching "Melancholie der Engel" because of it. I read somewhere that the director tried to make a connection between animals and humans, but I don't think the killing and torturing scenes were needed at all. I watched the movie without subtitles (and I don't speak German), so I didn't understood the story, if there's something to understand. To finish my review I would say that it's pretty shocking, disgusting and boring. See it for your self.