There is such a political joke
"He's smearing our leaders."
"How did you smear it?"
"He repeated the words of our leader"
Lars von Trier's way of antichrist is to repeat the teaching of Christianity, but he does it in a true way. The Antichrist's way is to tell the truth about Christianity. Just like "Dog Town", Christianity tells us that love can build a society for good, then "Dog Town" tells the anti-Christian to tell the truth with a story of love failing in the collective.
From the very beginning of the movie, it has something to do with Christianity. The couple neglected their children when they were doing husband and wife affairs, and the children fell from the building unexpectedly to die. The fact is that this is not entirely an accident according to the movie. They didn't know that the child's foot was deformed until after the child died. This is the "original sin" of the two people: neglecting the importance of the next generation for their own pleasure. The continuation of the next generation is the inevitable law of natural evolution. This story is a story of two people who face nature and fall into fear.
The final Lass of the film pays homage to Tarkovsky, which is generally seen as a tribute to Tarkovsky's image style. But there is actually one more point. If you really like Tarkovsky, you will find that he is full of praise for the beauty of nature in "Mirror", and Lars's work is to praise nature like "Mirror" Deconstruction of the kernel. The film is about uncovering the truth: the truth about how cruel nature is. In cruel nature, emotional women are victims of natural evolution, and rational men can survive in nature. Just like in the Bible, it was Eve, an emotional woman, who instigated Adam to sin together for his own pleasure and was driven out of the Garden of Eden. Women are evil, that's the argument the movie is trying to prove. But please think about what the definition of "evil" is. The so-called "evil" means that women pursue emotions too much, which hinders the evolution of nature, so they must be sacrificed. Just like Eve is not necessarily evil, but her pursuit of pleasure is not conducive to the evolution of nature, so she is "evil" to nature and needs to be punished.
Understand this: the character settings of any movie are not random. The movie wants to show the emotionality of women, and the heroine's role is a mother who has lost a child. This setting can best express the emotionality of women. For example, the heroine of Kieslowski's "Blue" lost a loved one. It is convenient for the film to focus on her rich emotions. At the child's funeral, the man just cried very sadly, while the heroine passed out. Men can walk out of grief, but emotional women can't walk out of grief. Cruel nature for its own evolution would have punished men and women for ignoring natural evolution for their own pleasure, driven them out of the Garden of Eden, and naturally eliminated women. The various dead animals in the movie are an externalization of the fear that nature will eliminate itself. In the end, both of them were punished, but the difference was that the woman died, and the rational man survived the punishment. The end of the movie is even more ironic. The male protagonist leaves Eden and sees the bodies of a group of women who have been sacrificed by nature. Another group of women are seen coming to Eden to carry on with their lives. How cruel is nature, there are still human beings who will step into the cycle of life even if they are sacrificed. Women are symbolic here, which is also a sense of bad taste. Adam may have survived, but there may not be only one Eve. One woman was sacrificed, and another woman was sent over by cruel nature to maintain nature. run. Like the very sexist line from Martin Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ" " There is only one woman in this world, only this woman has many different faces. Mary Magdalene Dead, and Maria elsewhere with your child."
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