It talks about witchcraft, femmes fatale, lust as weapon or as madness.Īnd it may root these ideas in middle and dark ages images and textures. And introduces it as a historical idea which has lived from the beginning of mankind, not as a modern one. That way, you get the confrontation between us and "they".Īntichrist places the "others" focus on women. They may be aliens, monsters, children, clowns, demons, communists, poor people, rich people, foreigners, psychos. In the horror films there's usually an "other" who is evil, mad, dangerous, wild. So yeah.help me make sense of this (and share your opinions of the movie too). Incidentally, that movie stars Kirsten Dunst, who was also in the Spiderman movies). It reminds me a lot of Melancholia actually, which was another "artistic" movie about mental illness that is completely off the walls (I didn't like Melancholia while watching it, but I sort of appreciate it now.
I just.can someone who's seen it share their reactions about this movie? I don't even understand why it was called Antichrist. I just don't even know where to features tons of nudity (including a full shot of penetration in the opening credits), a closeup of genital mutilation, and occultist themes tied to three animals called the "three beggars." It ran as a decent (though oddball) psychological drama about mental illness for the first hour, and then it just went full crazy. I need to do some research because I just watched this movie and it doesn't make ANY sense. Has anyone seen this? It stars Willem Dafoe (Green Goblin in Spider Man movies).