The Antichrist is a great surreal film.
The mother who has lost her beloved child is in grief, and her husband, who is a psychologist, tries to explore the root of his wife's fear through psychotherapy.
Urgent sex, dark forests, acorns and animals, dreams and auditory hallucinations, religious images and meanings flash back and forth as we decipher these bewildering images. Husband discovers paper written by wife in Eden's log cabin on the persecution of "witches" in Europe from the 15th to the 18th centuries: women seen as incarnations of the devil Satan, publicly tried by the Holy See and subjected to sleep deprivation, Punishments such as rape, amputation, and burning at the stake.
In the final chapter, the three beggars representing death, who are opposite to the "Three Saints of the East" representing rebirth in the biblical nativity book, come - a doe giving birth, a fox that devours its own internal organs, and a crow in a cave. The hero and heroine begin to fight and kill each other. This is Christ versus Satan, science versus witchcraft, male versus female. The Garden of Eden of Genesis is revived here. Eve was bewitched by the snake when she ate the forbidden fruit, so can it be said that the woman who degenerated into evil was also instigated by the patriarchal church? They became the voices of evil, and more extreme evils were imposed upon them, intended to end evil in its form.
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