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Antichrist Lars Von Trier?
I watched Antichrist.. i didn’t understand anything.. can anyone help?What is the movie based on? What does Antichrist mean? who are 3 beggers?Brief explanation of movie please… thank you
1. The movies is based on a similar theme in his movie Breaking the Waves.
In von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, the female character Bess (Emily Watson) is a Christ-like figure, a disturbing representation of mysticism and madness who sacrifices her life to redeem the man she loves.
2. Antichrist is an allegory of the Genesis myth which exposes the psychological terrors of Christian beliefs about the origins of sin. It draws its imagery not only from modern horror films but also from the teeming fears of medieval imaginations with their pervasive sense of evil and the power of Satan. The Antichrist of the film’s title is everywhere and nowhere – a viscous and elusive presence that seeps through nature, including human nature, and infects it with futility, death and decay. The Antichrist is perhaps also the God-man himself, alluded to in the figure of the husband, whose misogynistic cult has sacrificed generations of women through persecution,
3. A recurring motif is the three beggars who symbolise grief, pain and despair and who provide the chapter titles for the film which, like Breaking the Waves, has its narrative interrupted by title pages: Grief, Pain (Chaos Reigns), Despair (Gynocide) and The Three Beggars.
Antichrist: the visual theology of Lars Von Trier
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/antichrist-the-visual-theology-of-lars-von-trier
An Interpretation
http://caritasfischer.blogspot.com/2009/05/antichrist-by-lars-von-trier.html
Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nazi’ gaffe at Cannes Film Festival as he jokes about Adolf Hitler
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