The Antichrist and Miss T
The Antichrist is the only movie that moved me in ways that I never imagined that I could be moved. It’s Cannes most contra versed movie ever, and this movie has all the reasons to be so. I saw it at TIFF, it played only once but at public demand they made another screening. At the second screening 20 people left the room because they were horrified.
What has this movie have to do with Miss T? Everything! She is the lead actress! She is the girl that would smash my balls with a piece of wood while screaming “Don’t leave me” and cut of her … after that! She hates men for being so evil with women but knows that because our nature is evil they are equally evil too. The only thing that scares the living guts out of her is me and thats why she is so depressed all the time.
Even so, she is the only girl I really adore. Just because of the way she is 100% or nothing, there is no predictable half way with her.
After I left the cinema I was shaking like mad, and my guts transform in peanuts every time I think about it. Countries like Russia are forbidding this movie because of it’s vulgar and twisted dogma, but they have to understand that this is real life, it’s not a fetish porn movie or a unchristian horror movie.
<“Antichrist” by Lars von Trier has to be one of the most perplexing psychological horror movies I have ever seen. It’s loaded with invented symbolism, explicit sex and graphic violence. The film is clearly influenced by Nietzsche’s essay “Guilt, Bad Conscience and the like” from his book “On the Genealogy of Morals” with its main themes of life and death, guilt, castration ,punishment, torture, grief, sacrifice of the first-born and “the forest is the devil’s church” as well as the symbolic “Antichrist”. In a prologue a couple is having passionate and graphically detailed sexual intercourse. Their child escapes their watch and accidentally dies. The wife becomes severely depressed and traumatized, so the husband takes her to an isolated shack in the forest ironically called Eden to apply his aggressive methods of psychotherapy. “Antichrist” is clearly the most personal film of Lars von Trier. The director has stated that “Antichrist” was a form of therapy for him following a long period of depression. There is pretty shocking scene of cliteroctomy with rusty scissors and an ejaculation of blood. The story is heavy with rich symbolism for example a baby bird falls dead out of a nest covered in ants or a fox lies dead in the grass eating its own entrails. The acting by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourgh is brave and the scene with talking fox totally cracked me up .All in all,”Antichrist” is a bizarre, compelling, uncompromising and profoundly disturbing film. I can’t recommend it enough.>
June 9, 2009 1:45 am
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