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Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Anti Christ. 2009.

After loosing their son in a accident, the couple retreat to a cabin to repair their broken marriage and the husband who is a therapist to analyse his wife and help her with grief.

Think this is the third time seeing this and I think I have the meaning of the film and hopefully it will make sense, first of all Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsburg show their true acting side as they play the couple in despair, and as they progress it seems like nature is turning against them. The way Lars Von Trier shows this is people turning their backs to religion with the death of their son and stuck in purgatory, the wife seeing grief around her and not until the end he sees the grief she saw with the blurred faces of women who suffered grief in one way or another and female nature is evil.

I wouldn't go as far to say that the film displays torture porn but asking to be slapped thinking they deserved it would show problems in the mentally of people and the wife thinking her husband will leave her. The two main bits people may remember with the piece of wood and the scissors...yes I still got uncomfortable as well as the start of the film.

I still had a bit of problem understanding The Three Beggars, were they there to symbalise the evil of women, Satan using them to carry their souls to him or was it part of a coven that sent the women at the end to the top of the hill as there was a death and they have been guided out of purgatory because the wife saw what happened to their son? The music background was a bit depressing but look at the tone of the film, saying that this film was better than The House That Jack Built.


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Got this film, had it some time but never got round to watching it .