Marriage Horror
Miguel Cane
When you go to the cinema to see a film by Lars Von Trier, and knows what he throws: no cheating, no expectations. Will undergo a provocative experience, strong, even brutal. Therefore, do not think you will see a mainstream movie - in this case, a kind of thriller - and if you "do not pay to go to the cinema to suffer" or "not going to the movies to think but to entertain," then do not go. Be warned.
Otherwise it is almost impossible that this film leave anyone indifferent, as happened a couple of years in Cannes, where there were boos, fainting, screaming and controversial statements director of the type, "I'm the best filmmaker in the world" (which, although exaggerated and pretentious as the film-maker if it is not so far from reality). However, there is no doubt that Antichrist is not, by far the best work of Danish. Is not comparable to Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark or formidable Dogville. But it is a Von Trier film that speaks (sometimes screaming) and shakes. Von Trier is preferably a gas medium, that a movie "good" of a mediocre director.
This is not another movie in his filmography. In this case the speech is much more expressionistic, with sometimes extreme aestheticism but beautiful. The Brechtian scenes to nothing in Dogville become a forest at the same beautiful and ominous, as the seat of a story by the Brothers Grimm. The central theme of Antichrist is the same as always, with such mastery that has tried before: a woman tortured. In other cases it has been for the sacrifice sublime or profound maternal love of a husband who handles, or an abused community. In this case the death of his young son (in a haunting and beautifully done opening sequence). The pain is born from her womb, a depression that consumes from within. Her husband also will help with an attitude more suited to professional psychologist of a spouse.
The result is compelling and disturbing as the pair leaves their daily lives in Seattle and move to an isolated cabin in the woods, with the significant name of Eden. Once there, the inner horror comes in many forms, including the appearance of three strange animals, including a fox that reveals a cryptic phrase: chaos reigns. From there, it becomes reality. Making changes in Scenes from a Marriage of Bergman, Von Trier of combining it with elements of Polanski and August Strindberg, whose work Hell is fundamental source in the film, according to Von Trier himself.
One of the major successes of the film is the cast: Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg exceed all limits, spending double battered by grief and loss, natural enemies and bestial, with unexpected revelations that change dramatically the perception of the viewer is immersed in an atmosphere completely unrealistic (almost Lynchian). The sexual and sadistic film elements may affect some sensibilities, even if the viewer has survived the initial sequence of Saving Private Ryan or psycho-killers movies then there will be both problem. The film has been accused of being an ode to misogyny, surprising thing, given the fact that many understand the films of Von Trier as pro-feminist, although always with its own warped perspective. Film
oil, beautifully filmed, with reckless performances and remarkable resolve to a script that wanders and sometimes impossible to follow, Antichrist screens comes a bit late to Mexico, but do not miss the chance to see her in a room dark, large screen.
Antichrist / Antichrist
With Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe
Leads
Lars Von Trier Denmark / Sweden / Germany / UK / USA / France / Italy 2009
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