'Antichrist' (2009). Movie Review

Antichrist by Lars von Trier presents us with an escape inward, towards dread, towards sex, towards fears, towards the beginning that grips us and, at the same time, makes us create. It seems to me that it’s a masterpiece.

Antichrist is Eros and Thanatos and it is Nature itself in a film that, we warn you, is for those over 18 years old…. and for those who want to look beyond the routine. Of course, if you want to go further, you might even find it to be quite simply wonderful.

By the way, great Charlotte Gainsbourg, who also starred in Nymphomaniac.

And the same can be said for Willem Dafoe, one of those actors who always gives us that “something special”.

The Film

An adult film; difficult, uncomfortable to the point of not wanting to look inside ourselves, because that’s what it seeks, an uncomfortably sexual look at the sex we desire and despise deep down, in the stupidity of the dread that attracts us and leads us to seek ourselves out in infinite fear.

Let’s see… this is real cinema, this film is really good, a metaphor within a metaphor that is very uncomfortable for us. Oh yes, one of those that you can only appreciate when you have returned from the hell of sensitivity and the world is no longer the world… facing fear, without overcoming it, waiting for it to live in you.

A mockery of the human being, a mockery of cinema that only those who know how to do it understand… Incomprehensible, paradoxical, skeptical. The cinema within the cinema that is reflected – this guy, this Lars von Trier, knows how to do more than provoke, but… deep down he likes it, and deep down we like to get to the dark side.