Eyes pick up light and shadow, and knowledge analyzes the inside. The threshold set by a film for these two determines whether they serve the public or themselves, and the lesser part of the people.
There's nothing wrong with Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsberg's performances. Charlotte deserves the award.
The clues that can be explored in the plot can be roughly divided into two quadrants, one is deconstruction in the field of psychology, and the other is symbolism in the field of religion.
Nietzsche's discussion of sexuality becomes the cornerstone and core element of the film's performance, a couple who find themselves in sex, separate themselves in sex, and destroy themselves in sex.
Christ stands for rationalized fanaticism, a belief in oneness, while Antichrist stands for chaotic logic, doubting all.
A man believes that his mind and penis can redeem his wife, he gives a certain divinity to his actions, so he spends most of his time looking down and judging, until he is knocked out by his wife and put on torture instruments, he doesn't realize that he has been in hell On the fringes, those tortured animals are ritualized expressions of the fallen deity.
In addition to pain, a woman can only instantly confirm the meaning of her existence through clitoral pleasure, even more so after losing the life bond between her and her husband. She is afraid of hurt and fear of losing, but the orgasm of the body cannot stop herself from constantly filling with pain. The inner void caused by the pain is destined to eventually lose her everything. From another point of view, she also successfully attributed everything to chaos, the death of the child's life, the death of the family's blood ties, the rational death of her husband, and finally the death of her will and body.
The man finally miraculously saved himself and killed the woman. This is not the answer given by reason. It is irrational. The crow and the wrench symbol seem to symbolize that Christ and the Antichrist always walk together.
The interesting part of this movie is summed up by the world view of the game: people with order and justice, you will be glad to see Christ save himself, people with chaos and evil, you will be content to see witches blaspheme. And most people have the attributes of justice, evil, order and chaos, so you will feel stimulation, pain, doubt, relief, and all kinds of flavors.
Finally, I have to say: the male protagonist is indeed a not so qualified father.
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