Lars Von Trier, the Danish director. He's won and been nominated for several awards for most of his movies, and their kinda unique, yet also really weird. They are also controversial, but only because that he wants them to be. Usually, when things are controversial, it has something to do with the subject matter, or recreating some stuff to be as realistic as possible. Lars Von Trier is controversial, because he wants too. He even flipped off the juries of the Cannes Film Festival for not getting the Pamle d'or (the best film award). His latest movie "Antichrist" was shown at Cannes back in May, and it gathered a lot of controversy for a lot of reasons. This actually made me interested in watching it, but not in the cinema. I already read some of the stuff that would happen in the movie, so I didn't wanna go see it on the cinema. I finally got to see it on the internet though, and now, here's my review. It's gonna be a complex one, so bear with me on this one. Surprisingly I'm not gonna show a poster for this one, as it actually contains partial nudity.

The movie follows a couple. While having sex, their baby boy awakens and climbs out a window and jumps out of it, dying when he hits the ground. Due to the son's death, "She" (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is deeply affected by this and is in a state of grief. "He" (Willem Dafoe), is her husband, but also a therapist, so he attempts to "cure her". While discussing about "She's" biggest fear, he finds out she's deadly afraid of their cabin in the woods, so he takes her out there, in order to confront her fear. However, while out there, some weird things are happening and "She" suddenly starts to change...

First of all, yes the main characters in the movie have no names. In fact, Lars refers to them as "He" & "She". Also, they are only actors in this movie. There are other people appearing in the movie, but their faces are censored, which is weird. The story is... well it's defiantly one you might not get right away. It's one of those movies you really have to analyze, in order to fully understand what's happening. Nevertheless, it does have it's flaws. The movie is primarily split into 4 chapters, excluding prologue and epilogue. The first chapter (Grief) shows the start of the whole therapy thing, while chapter 2 (Pain: Chaos Reigns), has them going to the cabin. These sections kinda build up the whole psychological, but their kinda flawed. First of all, it's kinda boring and it feels like nothing is happening, or even achieved. That and there's a few sex scenes as well, and you do get to see everything, no censorship. Things do start to pick up at chapter 3 (Despair: Gynocide) and chapter 4 (The Three Beggars). It's during these parts that the movie becomes a bit scary, but also very weird. The sex scenes get's very weird and the violence is just disturbing. But it succeeds in making the movie intriguing. Even doing the first 2 boring chapters, you really get the feeling that something is wrong and that with the way "She" behaves, something severe could happen any minute. That and the movie constantly have a dark atmosphere. But like I said earlier, it's not all perfect, besides the first 2 chapters being boring, some scenes are just plain weird. The sex scenes were kinda pointless and could have been toned down and few of the plot points just comes outta nowhere and aren't developed a lot.

As I mentioned, the sex scenes and the violence just becomes weirder and more disturbing as the movie goes on, and while it defiantly makes sense in the end (given when you figure out why she's behaving strange), but it's pretty disturbing. Some of the violence later on is pretty gruesome, but why it needs to be in there, I honestly don't know. It's like they were just in there to shock people, and that's what the movie seems to be aiming for, shocking people. Some critics attacked the movie for being misogyny (Hatred/contempt for women/girls), and to be honest, I don't know what to say. The movie certainly deals with the theme later on, but I don't get the impression that the movie hates women. It just uses it as a plot line, nothing else. But I guess you need to see the movie, in order to judge for yourself. I don't think it hates women.

For all that though, the movie is actually well made, and shot really well. Yea it's artistic, but it looks good, and it also really succeeds in making you intrigued. Everything in the movie spells artistic all over it and I respect that, but it just creates some pointless parts. The acting is actually pretty good as well, especially for Charlotte Gainsbourg. She was award at Cannes Film Festival for best actress for the role, which is well deserved.

In the end, Antichrist is very complex to give a score. On the other hand, it's intriguing and succeeds in bringing that creepy atmosphere, but on the other hand, the movie expects you really pay attention and analyze the hell outta everything, and it's so unnecessarily disturbing and (some of it) sexual, and some of the plot points aren't developed right. If people wanna see something drifferent and on't mind the sexual and violent stuff, then check it out, but for everyone else, stay away. I kinda respect this movie, because it's so drifferent, but it's still hard to give a score, so I'll after consideration, I'd give it....

7/10