It is important to note that intercourse favors heavily in Trier’s work, yet not quite in the Turistas and Hostel fashion. Indeed, from the very first act, sexuality is something to indicate the presence of looming and ominous repercussions. Moreover, it is depicted in a very raw manner, almost to the point that the viewer…
click for Part One or Part Two See, normally when one sits down to view a horror film or something that will present scenes of an uncomfortable nature, they are soothed by the implicit recognition that films having ratings, that they are limited in what they can present. When it gets to the scene you…
For Part 1 click here After all, you cannot just throw the term Antichrist around nonchalantly, and I had no real reason to believe Trier, like so many others who attempted to use the term, could really capture its sentiments. Even listening to Manson’s album and having it in my possession never felt like anything…
When I was in sixth grade I managed to get a hold of Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar record. Suffice it to say from a very young age I had a morbid curiosity with the controversial and the appalling, anything that pushed the limits and challenged the status-quo. Fittingly, that album was the most taboo possession I…