Post by The Crimson One on Oct 30, 2009 18:39:34 GMT
What do you guys think? Seen it? Gonna see it?
Personally I think it looks pretty F'ed up, and I can't wait. I enjoyed Von Trier's "Breaking the Waves", but there was something about it that I didn't enjoy
I'm just hoping he doesn't do something like that with this one.
Anywho, apparently he was quite depressed when he was making it. If you don't know, it starts only Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Here is Ebert's review:
There’s electricity in the air. Every seat is filled, even the little fold-down seats at the end of every row. It is the first screening of Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” and we are ready for anything. We’d better be. Von Trier’s film goes beyond malevolence into the monstrous. Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief. There were piteous groans. Sometimes a voice would cry out, “No!” At certain moments there was nervous laughter. When it was all over, we staggered up the aisles. Manohla Dargis, the merry film critic of The New York Times, confided that she left softly singing “That’s Entertainment!”
Whether this is a bad, good or great film is entirely beside the point. It is an audacious spit in the eye of society. It says we harbor an undreamed-of capacity for evil. It transforms a psychological treatment into torture undreamed of in the dungeons of history. Torturers might have been capable of such actions, but they would have lacked the imagination. Von Trier is not so much making a film about violence as making a film to inflict violence upon us, perhaps as a salutary experience. It’s been reported that he suffered from depression during and after the film. You can tell. This is the most despairing film I’ve ever have seen.
I shall be watching it tonight, so I shall post thoughts later...
Personally I think it looks pretty F'ed up, and I can't wait. I enjoyed Von Trier's "Breaking the Waves", but there was something about it that I didn't enjoy
The CG bells at the end!!! WTF!?!?!
I'm just hoping he doesn't do something like that with this one.
Anywho, apparently he was quite depressed when he was making it. If you don't know, it starts only Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Here is Ebert's review:
There’s electricity in the air. Every seat is filled, even the little fold-down seats at the end of every row. It is the first screening of Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” and we are ready for anything. We’d better be. Von Trier’s film goes beyond malevolence into the monstrous. Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie. We looked in disbelief. There were piteous groans. Sometimes a voice would cry out, “No!” At certain moments there was nervous laughter. When it was all over, we staggered up the aisles. Manohla Dargis, the merry film critic of The New York Times, confided that she left softly singing “That’s Entertainment!”
Whether this is a bad, good or great film is entirely beside the point. It is an audacious spit in the eye of society. It says we harbor an undreamed-of capacity for evil. It transforms a psychological treatment into torture undreamed of in the dungeons of history. Torturers might have been capable of such actions, but they would have lacked the imagination. Von Trier is not so much making a film about violence as making a film to inflict violence upon us, perhaps as a salutary experience. It’s been reported that he suffered from depression during and after the film. You can tell. This is the most despairing film I’ve ever have seen.
I shall be watching it tonight, so I shall post thoughts later...