Russ didn't create evil, he just described the instincts that exist naturally in human nature after removing moral and emotional constraints.
People who give this movie low marks either don't get used to Lars' narcissism or abstract movies or are brainwashed by so-called political correctness.
I still understand this film as a deconstruction of human nature. From the very beginning, the protagonist was tortured by an old woman and finally couldn’t bear to smash her to death with a jack. Later, he killed his wife and children and made the corpses of his children. To become a so-called perfect child, and to cut off the breasts of the woman you love to make a wallet, are in fact stripping away some unnatural existence in human nature. From the general social morality, to the family life pattern that people are accustomed to, to the suppression of desire in the name of love, etc., everything is to release the monster of human nature from its shackles.
In the play, Russ challenges God with his own wisdom through the protagonist, questioning the authority of the creator. Desperate to smash all the masks and disguises of human nature. In the end, a house was built out of corpses, which is called art. And this art may be understood as the most primitive, blank human nature. Our human nature is like a smeared piece of white paper, and we suddenly thought that if we teach a newborn baby that rotting corpses are beautiful from birth, maybe babies can grow into human beings different from us. (Similar to wolf child?)
The hell and heaven at the end of the movie are considered by many to be a failure, but from a postmodern perspective, it can also be seen as an indictment by Lass on the highly developed human material society that shields the happiness and happiness of human nature itself. In the end, the killer fell into the depths of hell. Rather than understanding Russ as bowing his head to the political correctness of Cannes, it is better to understand the killer's powerlessness and confusion in seeking the primitive happiness of the human mind in an overdeveloped modern society. Otherwise, why make this movie.
The film is also Ruth's best answer eight years after he was banned from Cannes for sympathizing with the Nazis. Maybe this movie has no positive value for most people in human society, but in terms of the depth and height of the movie itself, I think it deserves full marks.
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