Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Antichrist

Antichrist was released in 2009 and was directed by Lars von Trier. The main characters are the husband, wife, and child. Although the child is only there for the first 5 minutes, he plays a major role in the movie. Their son dies while they are having sex because they weren't paying attention to him, and then the wife ends up being extremely depressed. The husband is a psychiatrist and believes he can treat her better than staying at the hospital so he takes her home. They go to their cabin, "Eden", to face her fears and to hopefully make her better. After they get to the woods, things start to look on the brighter side until she relapses. The movie has a very dark feeling, and you really do need to have a strong stomach. It usually takes a lot for me to get extremely grossed out to the point of having to cover my eyes, never has a movie done that to me before I watched Antichrist. If a few scenes were taken out, I would say this is a good movie and really makes you pay attention and have to really think about it. There are a lot of underlying messages in this movie which is why it reminds me of art. When looking at a piece of artwork you have to think about what the artist is trying to state and look into it. This movie does the same thing when you watch it, which was one of the few things I actually enjoyed about this movie.

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