tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post8002727098905110315..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Acid's Greatest Horror #1: ANTICHRIST (2009)Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-59927917943203005062017-02-23T23:52:04.334-05:002017-02-23T23:52:04.334-05:00A brilliant film. It can be read as one of the gr...A brilliant film. It can be read as one of the great "witchcraft "films of all time. Charlotte"s character has been possessed from the first scene. In a flashback of the child's death, mid film, Charlotte stares directly at the baby reaching for his bear, moments before his death. Von Trier indicates that she was aware the child had begun to climb out of his crib. She 'forgot" to secure the crib and close the window. We realize that she has tormented the child with misfitting shoes and ignores his cries. Her "madness" has been brewing for a long time.<br />The protagonists we come to understand as fringe, iconoclasts. Her doctorate is merely a scrapbook with increasingly sloppy script. One wonders if she is actually connected to any university. Same goes for the therapist husband who dismisses "medicine" and psychiatrists, undertaking a punishing, non medicated talk therapy while his wife writhes in mental anguish. "Nature" sends pine cones, symbolic animals, smothering verdant overgrowth. A claustrophobic cabin intensifies the horror.<br /> Point being we, the viewers, experience their excruciating confrontation with raw, primitive energies. Extraordinary. To be viewed many times!!!!<br /><br /><br />Barbara maestrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315450679533247561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-83350825753715926562009-11-13T15:36:25.862-05:002009-11-13T15:36:25.862-05:00Great thoughts here, Erich.
Of course I was not a...Great thoughts here, Erich.<br /><br />Of course I was not a fan of this film <i>at all</i>, but I respect your opinion and where you're coming from. I don't think that von Trier is always a misogynist (although it's hard to argue against stuff like <i>Dancer in the Dark</i> and <i>Breaking the Waves</i>), but more so than ever here he is a misanthrope...and I just didn't care for this film or its HEAVY melodrama. Maybe I'm a cold-hearted bastard, but I laughed in disbelief through a lot of this film. It just all felt so silly and I wasn't willing to take von Trier seriously because I don't think he takes his audience seriously. <br /><br />Still...the film is polarizing and I definitely sit on the anti-Antichrist side of the argument. Your review is just another one of many good defenses I've read about the film.Kevin J. Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17275402809912728035noreply@blogger.com