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The Spanish Inquisition

by on Aug.09, 2009, under comedy


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nature is satan’s church: lars von trier’s antichrist

by on Aug.09, 2009, under film, philosophy

Here is  an excellent piece on the film from the blogger ‘Infinite Thought’. Click on the link at the bottom to read all of it.

[Warning: contains spoilers. Erm, pretty much all of them.]

Much has been made of von Trier’s recent deep unhappiness; even if you were unaware of this biographical detail, Antichrist is very obviously the product of a serious and prolonged depression of frankly theological proportions. Everything is wrong or We are already in hell: Nature has revealed itself as the relentlessly cruel, profoundly disgusting indifferent monster it always was; human nature is even worse, and women are as disturbed and disturbing as anything a malevolent deity could create in its worst dreams. If Antichrist IS a misogynist film – with the symbol for woman in the title, the ‘researcher on misogyny’ in the credits and Gainsbourg’s demented thesis on ‘gynocide’, her own self-hatred and the final utterly strange scene where blank-faced women swarm up a hill as Dafoe’s character looks on in bewilderment – it is so transcendentally misogynist that it fails to be applicable to any empirical woman that could ever exist, even Gainsbourg’s own character, with her already infamous self-mutilation, hyper-dependency and childlike cruelty. Indeed, it is hard not to sympathise in some small way with her character at points, as tangentially complicit as she is in the death of her own child as well as her own madness.

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