Confused? Bergman on cocaine, "AntiChrist" is essentially the result of director Lars Von Trier's very public rejection of religion (which followed a prolonged bout of depression). He watches a host of women, their faces smudged, climb up a wooded hillside. A modern man of science becomes a medieval witch hunter. He fights back, strangles her, and burns her corpse on a pyre. Seeing Him about to extract the wheel, she stabs him.
Her scream alerts the deer, fox, and bird, which come to the cabin. She mutilates her own genitals with scissors. Chapter four (The Three Beggars): It is revealed that she was watching their son as he climbed up to the window. Hands reach out from the Earth, man and nature re-embrace. It is unable to fly, he is unable to walk, both creatures bound to the land. He manages to crawl into a foxhole where he finds an injured bird. She knocks her husband unconscious, batters his genitals, masturbates him, and bolts a lathe wheel onto his leg. "All things cry, all things die." Out walking, He sees a wounded fox which speaks: "chaos reigns." Chapter three (Despair): He discovers that She was deliberately injuring their child. "I understand that everything beautiful is perhaps hideous," she says. Chapter two (Pain): He directs her in therapeutic exercises. At this stage, Mother and Child, Nature and Woman, aren't yet at war. He sees a deer whose stillborn fawn is still partly contained in its womb. The duo travel to Eden (the Biblical cradle of mankind) and hike through the woods. She says she associates fear with Eden, a cabin in the woods where she spent the previous summer trying to finish her dissertation on "Gynocide" (the killing of women). His theory is that she must "re-live her deepest fears". He takes over her treatment, believing that He can cure her with the miracles of Science. Chapter one (Grief): She collapses at her child's funeral and is hospitalised. Note: He is played by Willem Dafoe, who famously portrayed Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ".
Similarly, the wife is a researcher into the history of witchcraft and is known simply as She. In the film, the husband is a therapist and is known simply as He.
Prologue: Whilst a husband and wife have sex at home, their toddler climbs out a window and falls to his death. Lars Von Trier directs "AntiChrist", a film comprised of six clear segments.
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