When I spoke to him last week, he claimed that there are no immediate plans to make another film. Von Trier is now back in Denmark, privately battling his demons. Reason, the Directive implies, is a modest defense against elemental forces. In an audacious scene, von Trier mistakes Dafoe through Bracken where he encounters a talking fox who informs him that “anarchy reigns”. And yet for all that, she proves to be more important, more powerful, and oddly more charismatic than “she”, the arrogant, arrogant advocate of order and logic. Yes, the character of “She” is distressed and irrational Danger to yourself and those around you. But does the fear of womanhood automatically equate to hatred? I’m not sure it does. Here’s a film that explicitly confronts the director’s primal nature and inherent fear of female sexuality. Von Trier designed the play as a fun house of terror A war of dark nooks and crannies, spring-loaded with trap doors and rearing sprites. Is Antichrist an anti-female movie? It is essentially in the eye of the beholder.
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