Lars von Trier did not like to explain his films, but he was keen to publicize his medical history, so almost everyone knew that he suffered from depression, which lasted for two years, like a depressing Dreams, and this "Antichrist" is his work during his illness, so the dark tone throughout, it looks like a dream, messy, disordered, and full of panic.
The story itself is quite simple. It tells the story of a husband and wife, who were patronizing themselves, but the child fell from the window sill and died, and then the two faced the story together. But you'd be wrong if you think of this story as too tender. Lars von Trier said that he doesn't like to make genre films, but likes to play games with genre films, so this "The Antichrist" is a game he made with horror films, his own dark and weird elements , was also not absent, and that kind of terrifying atmosphere and methods that seemed to be carelessly managed can definitely make men and women clamp their legs at the same time.
It is said that when the film was screened in Cannes, when the subtitle "Homage to Andrei Tarkovsky" came out at the back, it caused laughter, but I still want to believe that the maverick Lars von Titty This time Er is still trying to get closer to his favorite "Mirror" in the relationship between people. If his destruction of Tarkovsky's poetic film style is too obvious, then the right should be another annotation for "Antichrist", after all, he also said "Tarkovsky is God Himself" .
Moving on to the relationship between people, strictly speaking, this is a story of human relationship driven by a woman, because it is first of all a story of a woman walking into a dead end, which is not uncommon in life, to give an example , if you ever said the word "idiot" to a close lover about a small mistake, no matter how sweetly you laughed, if one day this lovely woman is in a certain Being hit intellectually by the incident, no matter who the perpetrator is, she will definitely say to you first: Yes, like you said, I'm an idiot. You can't deny that you said these two words, but the same two words are brought into such an environment, and the meaning is quite profound.
This is the way some people (not just women) are used to thinking, because they blame themselves for a mistake, they start digging deep into the cause in others, and eventually it gets out of hand.
This is the case with the woman in the film. If all her crazy actions are attributed to her love for her son, it is more a kind of guilt. She deliberately puts on the wrong shoes for her son, which shows that she actually has a kind of knowledge about her son. Wrong and irrepressible abusive tendencies, and her son's death cut off her way of making up for her guilt, so this poor woman lost control in her self-criticism, like anyone who talks about self-criticism, that's even worse. Like a sarcasm, she was just implying that it was someone else who should be doing the self-criticism. So she is sometimes crazy and sometimes sober, and she loves you and misses you, and Willem Dafoe is swaying in this extreme stimulation.
There are a lot of surreal images in the film. If you can't understand it deeply, you don't need to go too deep into it. After all, in Lars von Trier's own opinion, this is a romantic film! !
I have to say, I clamped my legs again for this statement.
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