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The Worst Film Ever
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Mariam Mansuryan
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.
joecoby45
I enjoyed the first thirty minutes or so, but the movie ended up just be non nonsensical and stupid, as well as pretentious and boring. The camera work is great, as is the acting by the two leads. But really nothing of substance is shown.
PubHound
8 -This movie was a blast for me, both bone-chilling and stomach-turning, but at the same time profoundly rich in meaning. Aside from prologue and epilogue, so "delicately" filmed and edited, the main dish is often too brutal, both visually and conceptually, delivering a truly unforgettable experience. Both an omage to horror movies and a beast of its own, Antichrist will sure leave you shocked.
grantss
Lars van Trier's works teeter on the brink between a masterpiece, and being a piece of pretentious crap of the highest order. Dogville fell in the former category (despite starring Nicole Kidman - imagine how superb it would have been if she was not in it). Unfortunately, Antichrist falls in the latter category.The movie consists of long drawn-out dialogues and imagery that go nowhere, interspersed with the occasional scene that is there purely for shock value. Tedious pretentiousness parading as some sort of great essay on the human psyche, or human relationships, or dealing with grief - who knows, pick one.A total waste of time.
