Antichrist from Lars von Trier

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Interesting is the only word I could describe this work. Nobody wants to see this, who is not ready for seeing shocking pictures, trangression and extreme behaviour. So you want to see that and then it is not that bad, you get it but not only, they speak, they analyse themselves, they fuck and so on.
To be frank I have always the feeling that a lot of directors after long years of psychoanalysis need, at the end, to make a movie where an analyst get a main role. So I have to pay eight Euros to see a movie which I do not really understand but who helped one director to deal with his mother who was a kind of castrating him as a child. So, Lars von Trier, is he talking about mothers in general or about his one in particular? Is it a gore version of “La maman et la putain” (a masterwork of the Nouvelle Vague where Jean Eustache describes the difficulty for the men to see in the same woman the holy mother and the sinner whore)? Or is it just about the communication problems between men and women?
The very well structured movie starts with Charlotte Gainsbourg losing by accident her only child and then Willem Dafoe (her husband and analyst), trying to make her recover confronting her to her fear, suffering and grief. Several comparisons of the “Nature” in flora and fauna with the human “Nature” shows how the feminine part can be cruel, obsessed with control and in the same time self destructive. Then in a hysterical surrounding “à la Hieronymus Bosch”, the burning of the evil woman implicates the rebirth of all the repressed children.
Wahoo, a kind of hardcore at the end; is it politically correct? Or is it just Philippe Claude fantasy? His only advice, see it if you study psychoanalysis or art from the middle age because it is so incredibly well played. Otherwise it is not enough gore to be entertaining!
P.S You don’t need the big screen, the DVD will do.