Antichrist

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Click here to show this review. Oh these interpretive art films! I had to watch it twice just to see if I could pick up on anything I missed the first time. It was an exercise in filming irrationality in a very artistic way. I don't buy the premise that the story is about how a woman's evil runs rampant. Both characters are completely nuts. The man is definitely disturbed and if in fact he was a therapist -it was a conflict of interest with him treating his own wife, but also illogical and dangerous for him to be taking a grieving, mentally fragile patient out into the woods and isolating her from everything. Also, he was the only one seeing (hallucinating) the doe, the fox, the raven and the group of women appearing at the end of the film. The woman was grieving and absolutely wanted to be punished. Also her study of gynocide only fuelled her psychosis which ended with her having a psychotic break, trying to kill her husband and inflict self-mulitation. Overall it was beautifully filmed - gorgeous scenery and very interesting symbolism that you could spend years disecting. If The Kingdom was like ER in acid, then this movie was like War of the Roses on acid, with a hint of Polanski's Repulsion thrown in for fun. I'm still pondering the title - it could just be referencing evil and evil makes people behave irrationally. Who knows maybe its an anagram.