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by Hans Clastorp 10/08/2009, 6:44pm PDT

C. Robert Cargill wrote:

But what is absolutely clear is that while Von Trier succeeds at crafting a masterful piece of moving art, he manages not to impart upon the audience a single, tangible idea that they all share.

A single tangible idea that all what share? The scenes? Von Trier's movies? Help me out here.

C. Robert Cargill wrote:

Everyone walks out with a different impression, but not in a good way. Arguments are about whether the film is decidedly misogynistic or wildly feminist; whether Defoe is crazy or whether the couple deserves everything that happens to them. I've run through the film a number of times in my head and discussed it with some of the best online film minds in the world and found not a person with a clear grasp of exactly what Von Trier is trying to say.

How could the the best online film minds in the world let us down like this? He should have asked me, because I would have enlightened him as to what the movie is about, namely: the struggle of the rational mind (=male) to overcome the irrational nature-world (=female). It's really not that hard to puzzle out. This guy's problem is that he thinks the movie is 'about' that struggle, in the sense of having some concrete opinion about it that von Trier is trying to convey, through the hopelessly inefficient means of making a feature film, instead of simply enacting that struggle. The confusion comes in, I believe, in thinking that people's dumb, pedantic opinions about things like that have inherent value.

C. Robert Cargill wrote:

But this critic gives it a solid C. Worth the watch once, but never again.

I give this critic a solid D, in the face. :(

Antichrist is worth watching by Hans Clastorp 10/02/2009, 6:41pm PDT NEW

so it's a documentary NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/02/2009, 7:00pm PDT NEW

Kered said we would like it also. :( by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/02/2009, 7:02pm PDT NEW

I didn't say you would like it. :( NT by Hans Clastorp 10/02/2009, 7:13pm PDT NEW

Well we have to watch it to find out (opinion forthcoming). NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/02/2009, 7:16pm PDT NEW

the Most Beautiful Piece of Muddled Art You Might Never See by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/07/2009, 11:37am PDT NEW

*SPOILER* Willem Dafoe's penis isn't EVEN the most disturbing part NT by Hans Clastorp 10/07/2009, 6:12pm PDT NEW

not a big fan of splayed intestines :( NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/08/2009, 1:09am PDT NEW

My wife disembowled me in a cabin in the woods and all I got was this lousy t-sh by Vested Id 10/08/2009, 2:31am PDT NEW

Also: that critic is an idiot. by Hans Clastorp 10/08/2009, 6:44pm PDT NEW

Re: Also: that critic is an idiot. by Hans Clastorp 10/08/2009, 6:49pm PDT NEW

I understand everyone's shits homotional right now NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/09/2009, 7:37am PDT NEW

I forgot to post about daynuh steevin's review of this, she hates it. by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 11/03/2009, 3:23pm PST NEW

Point Blank is probably the greatest movie of the 60s by Vested Id 11/03/2009, 10:26pm PST NEW

Needs more Mel Gibson doing his defiant-Christ-on-the-cross by Mischief Maker 11/03/2009, 10:51pm PST NEW

I don't even want to talk about that, youse are responsible for all the bores in by Vested Id 11/04/2009, 2:32am PST NEW

I GOT HAMMERED NT by Mel Gibson 11/04/2009, 5:27am PST NEW

usually these matters are handled with more discretion *crunch* NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 11/04/2009, 11:04pm PST NEW

TAKE THIS HOMELESS GUY *ranger chokehold* NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 11/05/2009, 7:46am PST NEW

I just read Ebert's Antichrist review! by Fussbett 12/01/2009, 11:02am PST NEW

Audition > Antichrist NT by Fatty McMasochist 12/01/2009, 11:45am PST NEW

Psh more like PROchrist. >:( NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 12/01/2009, 11:49am PST NEW

Yeah. And? NT by Fussbett 12/01/2009, 12:44pm PST NEW

I finally got around to seeing this. by jawo 01/31/2014, 9:30am PST NEW