Antichrist (2009)

I love this movie so much

Just perfect...

Highly Overrated But Still Good

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The whole film I was trying to understand why its title is Antichrist. So I was looking for allusions and that's what I'll talk about in this review.First of all, the garden of Eden, obviously, this is... the Garden of Eden... where Adam and Eve met each other and had their lovely adventures until that nasty snake came. It's also a representation of Heaven, and as "she" (since neither the man nor the woman have names here) says: Nature is Satan's church. A lot of things one location can be. A Satan's church is also represented visually many times, but one scene that especially sticks to me is that right before the Epilogue, where the forest becomes full of seemingly sexless naked bodies. Satan's church is obviously a very oxymoronic phrase, as Satan does not belong in the church, women even cover their heads to keep Satan away inside the church... but this weird custom means that he is after all in the church. One way or another, Satan seems to be hiding in the nature, like in the den of the fox... And it also hides within the human heart. In both "her" and more well controlled in "his". Maybe in Nick's heart too, and maybe it was Satan that pushed him to jump out.This brings me to a remark I can't not make. In both Antichrist and Melancholia, Lars Von Trier does something really great. He manages to reflect the world inside a person through the world outside. In Melancholia, the melancholy of the main character is symbolized by the planet approaching the Earth, and the clash is inevitable. At the end she makes peace with her melancholia, doesn't try to pretend anymore, and that's when the clash happens, while she rests in the magic cave.The same is here, the man goes into the forest, which is a representation of his wife's inner world, where he didn't have access for a long time, and only Nick did. Maybe that's why Nick jumped off, he was already crazy after seeing where her mother lived. At the end, where she stares at him jumping down, there is a feeling that she is somehow guilty for his death, and maybe she was... Maybe that's why his shoes were put on incorrectly, because she couldn't help but torture Nick.The film may be called Antichrist because the three wise men are Grief, Despair and Pain... So it's pretty antichrist. Another allusion is when she is lying in the grass, and her pose is exactly that of Christ's when he is resurrected.There is a lot to notice in this film. Mainly, I liked the combination of the moving camera reality and the slow motion abstractness, and the Pathetic Fallacy which Von Trier is a master of, I think.

Absolutely chilling experience. Psychological horror Von Trier style is well basically what you'd expect.. it's depressing and highly disturbing, while still being beautiful to look at, both literally and figuratively! It's full of hidden or double meanings and subtle nuances that make it even more haunting and thought provoking.

This is one heck of a disturbing movie, brilliantly acted by William Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsborough, superb camera work, Directed by Lars Von Trier. Explicit violence and sex scenes, superb script and story line that keeps you guessing until the very end.WARNING: Not for the faint hearted or prudish

I watched the film, and wondered why I was so miserable during the entire thing. Lars von Trier is not an artist - he's a sadist, and I know plenty of Danes who hate him. He is a poseur, who has embraced fascism and cruelty. It seems his sole purpose is to humiliate his actors, and really, his work is mediocre. He relies on shock value, using well known and generally talented actors - it adds to the "oh my god!" factor. He really should be walked off a cliff, but if you like watching people have their dignity removed in a manner utterly lacking in subtlety - Lars is your guy. Watch this film if you want, but honestly? I wouldn't waste my time; that's two hours I'll never get back.