Perhaps someone is interested in talking about it.While this film, in general, defies attempts to analyze it, here are a few (hopefully not too jumbled) thoughts which are a composite from reading many analyses of this film, a film rich in incoherent and possibly unintended(!) religious symbolism: At any rate, this is possibly a question for a different thread. By now even that has become boring though, are there any taboos left to break? I wonder what the next step will be.
Or rather, that's the way it comes across. Something is missing, extreme entertainment forms are almost like a way of pinching yourself to find out if you are still alive. The sated organised world is bored and lacking lust and zest, thus always creating even more extreme forms of personal entertainment. In general it is very interesting to compare European, Japanese and American cinema, countries where people almost always have enough to eat, where people lead 9-5 lives, where there hasn't been war in a while, to the art and cinema produced in countries where the people have real problems, where horror is reality. Now I am going on about it, but hope to have answered your question to your satisfaction. And I wasn't going on about it, I merely mentioned it. It is nothing but sensasionalism camouflaged as art. So I deducted that there must be something wrong with European society if we want to pay money to see such horror. This is reality in Africa though, torture, genital mutilation. Can only come to the conclusion that it is due to boredom in an otherwise conventional life which lacks nothing, or the fact that it's a taboo which is being broken, sensationalism for those who like to generally see films which depict forms of explicit torture. I don't understand why someone would want to see this for any other reason. What I really don't understand though is why anyone would want to pay money to see this, unless of course, the film-goer is going through a similar kind of personal crises and hopes to gain something by it. Von Trier is undergoing treatment for his psychological problems, so I guess one could argue that he has an excuse if he felt he needed to put this into his film as a means of processing his personal problems or something. In a later scene, She cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of rusty scissors She then drills a hole through his shin to bolt him onto a grindstone. While He is unconscious, she masturbates him until he ejaculates blood. She hits His testicles with a wooden plank so hard that it is implied they are crushed.
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Have a look at the Susanne Bier movie "Open Hearts" and tell me what you think please - I was so impressed that I tried to watch everything else she had done - and inevitably became a little dissappointed (although "After the weddng" is still pretty great). I really don't think he was making fun of disabled people. On the Idiots I thought it was one of the few films I've seen which had more central female characters and they were all quite well developed.Īlso I very much liked the idea of "spassing out" to turn society on itself. I think Mr Trier is a "way over the top" kind of director - but then again there's a bunch of them. I just find it so confusing that you moan about Europeans as "them" and then other times you say "us Europeans". I walked out of the cinema, found it sickening.
I found it way over the top, I knew some mentally disabled people from Berlin and couldn't help but feel that he was somehow making fun of them. Regarding The Idiots, I am happy for you and Ms. You and I are long lost cousines or something. Just read Cavalli/Sforza or Spencer Wells. Oh but Parney, we are all Africans genetically speaking. I guess Europeans just need some more real hardcore suffering in their lives, otherwise we wouldn't even consider paying money for seeing such shit. Antichrist von Trier InterviewĪs for people hacking at each others private bits, well, I ain't paying money to see that. Here is an interview with von Trier by Jonathan Crocker from Rotten Tomatoes UK. von Trier trying to cope with his own problems, especially his problems with women. If you are hoping for a purely spooky-supernatural-evil-gothy kind of movie, chances are you are also going to be disappointed. If it is to get entertained, chances are Antichrist ( not again!) is going to disappoint you. I guys you have to ask yourself why you go see a movie in the first place. That was after having been very disappointed by The Idiots, one of his previous films. I saw his last film, a comedy called The Boss of It All, was very funny and kind of bitter. Guy seems to be utterly depressed or something. Used to be a fan of Lars von Trier, but rumour has it that he made this film as some sort of personal therapy.
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