The world is a changing, and with the changes all around, there is no doubt that some ideas and aspects that we have lived with would be changing. One of these aspects is the most followed religion in the world, Christianity. Christianity has been the context of many movies all over the world, and some of them have begun to question several information that we have considered to be the all believed fact. There are some movies that stand out because of their controversial stand on Christianity, and one of them is Anti - Christ.
Cast:
William Dafoe- He
Charlotte Gainsbourg: She
Plot:
He and She are a couple whose life changes after an unfortunate incident. Their newborn son dies after he falls from the top floor of the their house, while the two are indulging in sexual intercourse. The death of the child, along with the situation how it happened, has a deep effect on the wife. The husband, who is a psychiatrist decides to self medicate his wife, and after a talk, the husband decides that the best way to cure his wife would be to help her face her worst fears, the first one being the forest.
The two then land in a old house in the forest, where the two live, with the husband and wife finding many different things about themselves, which makes them wonder whether they have made the right decisions in their life.
Review:
While the movie begins as the typical horror psychology fare, with the creeps and the drips the movie basically takes a deeper message that seems quite audacious when it first seeps in. As a movie, it is made very slickly, with the camera angles, the acting and everything else about the movie being top class, but the movie suffers from two flaws.
The one flaw in the movie, which makes it controversial is the unneeded graphic sexual scenes all through the movie. This basically makes the movie less watchable, as some of the scene placement would look as something that the director does for catering to the masses.
The other flaw is the basic concept of the movie, wherein basically the storywriter wants to tell us that all women are Anti Christ, and the only way to save the world is by doing away by any woman who turns out to the Anti Christ. As a movie reviewer, I would say that women have already been exploited a lot, and another movie that gets back to the Inquisition was not needed.
