Comments on: Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist': Theopoetry or Cosmic Joke? http://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/ Tue, 22 May 2012 13:13:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jett Loehttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2506 Jett Loe Fri, 29 May 2009 00:53:41 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2506 Lars Lars

]]> By: kbmhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2505 kbm Thu, 28 May 2009 23:13:17 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2505 Von Trier, as an atheist, is one of the most unusual satirists who practices visuals. "breaking the waves" which is deeply coded (even its title has a sly twist), is a brutal and mesmerizing comedy about a woman who sacrifices EVERYTHING on earth, her body, her spirit, her love and her pleasure for an unseen god created from shamanic ideals laced in a male-ordered church and suffused with rock music that is the opposite spiritual haven of the church, ALSO driven by males that practice a form of worship codes (it's incredibly obvious: he even codes animate ALBUM rock covers as worship portals). get it, dudes? we enslave women with god and rock and roll. Von Trier suspects we are complicit in every seduction worship entails and women follow us like rats into a sinking ship. a devastating masterpiece almost invisible. Von Trier, as an atheist, is one of the most unusual satirists who practices visuals. “breaking the waves” which is deeply coded (even its title has a sly twist), is a brutal and mesmerizing comedy about a woman who sacrifices EVERYTHING on earth, her body, her spirit, her love and her pleasure for an unseen god created from shamanic ideals laced in a male-ordered church and suffused with rock music that is the opposite spiritual haven of the church, ALSO driven by males that practice a form of worship codes (it's incredibly obvious: he even codes animate ALBUM rock covers as worship portals). get it, dudes? we enslave women with god and rock and roll. Von Trier suspects we are complicit in every seduction worship entails and women follow us like rats into a sinking ship. a devastating masterpiece almost invisible.

]]> By: Jett Loehttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2504 Jett Loe Thu, 28 May 2009 17:53:41 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2504 Lars Lars

]]> By: kbmhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2503 kbm Thu, 28 May 2009 16:13:17 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2503 Von Trier, as an atheist, is one of the most unusual satirists who practices visuals. "breaking the waves" which is deeply coded (even its title has a sly twist), is a brutal and mesmerizing comedy about a woman who sacrifices EVERYTHING on earth, her body, her spirit, her love and her pleasure for an unseen god created from shamanic ideals laced in a male-ordered church and suffused with rock music that is the opposite spiritual haven of the church, ALSO driven by males that practice a form of worship codes (it's incredibly obvious: he even codes animate ALBUM rock covers as worship portals). get it, dudes? we enslave women with god and rock and roll. Von Trier suspects we are complicit in every seduction worship entails and women follow us like rats into a sinking ship. a devastating masterpiece almost invisible. Von Trier, as an atheist, is one of the most unusual satirists who practices visuals. “breaking the waves” which is deeply coded (even its title has a sly twist), is a brutal and mesmerizing comedy about a woman who sacrifices EVERYTHING on earth, her body, her spirit, her love and her pleasure for an unseen god created from shamanic ideals laced in a male-ordered church and suffused with rock music that is the opposite spiritual haven of the church, ALSO driven by males that practice a form of worship codes (it's incredibly obvious: he even codes animate ALBUM rock covers as worship portals). get it, dudes? we enslave women with god and rock and roll. Von Trier suspects we are complicit in every seduction worship entails and women follow us like rats into a sinking ship. a devastating masterpiece almost invisible.

]]> By: Philhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2502 Phil Wed, 27 May 2009 17:25:32 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2502 I had sent Jett a link to this movie in hopes that one or both of you would see it at some point just to hear your opinions.<br><br>With the incredible range of reactions the film has received so far, it could make for one of your best podcasts yet, even if I never see the film (and with the immense controversy already surrounding it, it seems likely that most theaters will avoid it like the plague...or, swine flu, to be more up to date). I had sent Jett a link to this movie in hopes that one or both of you would see it at some point just to hear your opinions.

With the incredible range of reactions the film has received so far, it could make for one of your best podcasts yet, even if I never see the film (and with the immense controversy already surrounding it, it seems likely that most theaters will avoid it like the plague…or, swine flu, to be more up to date).

]]> By: kileyhttp://thefilmtalk.com/blog/lars-von-triers-antichrist-theopoetry-or-cosmic-joke/#comment-2501 kiley Wed, 27 May 2009 13:50:05 +0000 http://www.thefilmtalk.com/?p=2383#comment-2501 my mother was an eschatologist, so i actually read hal lindsey when i was a really young (haven't heard that name in a loooong time! LOL) and all that 'end of time' talk/studying i grew up around did was successfully turn me into a 'well-read' atheist who has never been scared by a horror movie...ever ;) - so it still to this day does kinda 'intrigue' me about how modern, 'civilised' people can believe in such a... varied, horrifying, mythical end, pinning all the 'evils of the world' on one person, who is the exact literal opposite of the 'christ' figure, hence the ANTI in anti-christ, dur da dur ;) ...but i mean, then u go back to the argument of did good begin evil, or evil begin good and can either really exist without the other? - except in reality all of that is moot since these are both intangible concepts and don't really exist anyway...ok, ok it's too early for this, i know, i know - i need coffee ;)<br><br>BUT, after reading the linked reviews, i think i have to see this movie! my mother was an eschatologist, so i actually read hal lindsey when i was a really young (haven't heard that name in a loooong time! LOL) and all that 'end of time' talk/studying i grew up around did was successfully turn me into a 'well-read' atheist who has never been scared by a horror movie…ever ;) – so it still to this day does kinda 'intrigue' me about how modern, 'civilised' people can believe in such a… varied, horrifying, mythical end, pinning all the 'evils of the world' on one person, who is the exact literal opposite of the 'christ' figure, hence the ANTI in anti-christ, dur da dur ;) …but i mean, then u go back to the argument of did good begin evil, or evil begin good and can either really exist without the other? – except in reality all of that is moot since these are both intangible concepts and don't really exist anyway…ok, ok it's too early for this, i know, i know – i need coffee ;)

BUT, after reading the linked reviews, i think i have to see this movie!

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