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Antichrist (2009)
Brilliant, slow and boring.
The movie is obviously all about good and evil since that's what most of the conversations are about, and there's plenty of biblical references, and we know that originally Lars Von Trier had intended on making a film about our world being created by Satan, so from that perspective it gets a lot easier to interpret. The male character is Adam and the female Eve. While in Eden, Eve obtains the forbidden fruit of knowledge but is unable to share it with Adam. Several months later she causes her child to die by leaving the gate open as well as the window (despite it being winter) and turning off the baby monitor. She then uses this tragedy to lure Adam back to the garden where she "shares" the fruit of knowledge with him by manipulation and cruelty. The film points out that his character is fairly oblivious to what's happening around him and somewhat naive. When she is unable to give him this knowledge or draw out his evil nature she attempts to remove what she see's as the source of it, their sex (just as in the bible where the two suddenly become aware of their nudity) in an attempt to return to a more child like state. When he finally realizes the truth (reality is evil) he murders Eve in an attempt to rid himself of the evil knowledge. But the legion of faceless women who soon approach him on the hill make a statement that there is no end to it, and that you cannot completely rid yourself from the harsh realities of life because there will always be more. The 3 beggars (animals) no longer show hostility towards him because he is aware of his connection to nature/evil and is able to feed off it as we see with him picking berries. Although another possible interpretation is that nature now shines on him not because he has come to accept that he shares a common bond with nature in his being evil with it, but because he has killed his evil wife without becoming corrupted by the act in which case I suppose the horde of faceless women in the end represent a continued attempt by Satan to draw him into violence and temptation. The women aren't shown making any hostile movements towards him but it's obviously meant to be ominous and frightening at the least. We never see him either run or lash out at the horde as the film ends just before they come into contact with him, so this leaves us questioning what happens next, perhaps to imply that it is a choice we can still make. There are plenty of videos on youtube featuring the cast and crew explaining the movie, but I didn't bother to watch any of them because I thought the movie was a bore. It was very clever and made you look deep in order to understand it, but it was still kind of clichéd in it's imagery, deep ominous tones and overly unnecessarily long scenes that directors seem to love to utilize so they seem more artistic and emotional. It's something you'd expect from a college film student who wants to be taken seriously. Hold your silent shots for as long as possible and have the characters talk in gentle whispers. Also include lots of shots of people staring contemplatively, wash out most of the colors and have some scenes in black and white. Still it's smarter than your average movie and the actors give everything they have. Just don't expect some epic Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch type adventure into horror. It's a small weird art-house film that uses over the top imagery to make it's point, even though the point alone was interesting enough to begin with.
Superbeast (1972)
#@*%*#!!
60% of this movie is the lead actress traveling on a plane, then in a car, then in a boat, then in a car, then walking a whole lot, then going in a row boat, then again in a rowboat. Another 20% of the movie is the camera man just filming whatever *beep* he sees. Some trees, random people walking, a rock, a car. Then there's a whole lot of talking that doesn't lead to much. In the end the "SuperBeasts" are just really angry ugly people who are a little stronger than average. They should show this movie in prison. No... in Guantanamo. This is the kind of movie that makes me glad abortion is legal, because every time a woman kills her infant, that's one less person who at some time in his or her life may accidentally stumble upon this film and be tormented by it's ungodly *beep* Watching this movie should be a form of therapy for rape victims. The experience will make their traumatic memories of the rape seem less horrific. As soon as I was done watching this crap I ran to the nearest church and begged the priest to baptize me so that I would have the protections afforded to a follower of God and would never have to fear going to hell one day, because in that awful place, they surely force you to watch this movie.