The Film That Shocked the World | Lars Von Trier's "Antichrist" - Shocking Cinema

[@BNumbersStation]

Willem Dafoe strikes me as a genuinely nice and personable guy who just has a knack for ending up in brutal and disturbing films.

[@MsBrynnElizabeth]

>>this comment is a bit lengthy, apologies

[@patypus555]

He is nice IRL. Met him at a film festival in 2006.

[@telecentric2103]

Godspeed Spider-Man.

[@missycitty9478]

I've always said, he's got "the look". That's not to say, he's not an amazing actor to boot.

[@scottoverbey7809]

Lol the reason he ends up in brutal and disturbing films is because he is a brutal and disturbing person he just happens to be a nice guy

[@Rambunctious202]

Hahaha Willem Dafoe's magnum dong almost ruined production. Classic Willem

[@CorbCorbin]

MDO? Magnum Dong Opus…

[@Heavyfackingmusic]

Its not actually him... it's a pornaogrphic actor. Dafoe probs still hangs mad dong tho. Man played Jesus. And we all know Jesus was probably packing

[@bobo9537]

Unforgettable

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

Moron comment

[@iamkillerboyyt8958]

Ppppppp

[@WeekendWarrior1]

"I understand Hitler" we ares starting off strong huh

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

Gang gang

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

Where's the banner update Weekend?

[@WeekendWarrior1]

@@VinluvAntonHandesbukia you didn't reply on twitter lmao I'll get right on it

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

@@WeekendWarrior1 thanks

[@MicahMicahel]

He thought he was dealing with adults. He's a writer understanding character. People are really on a moral outrage. Castro was a bad guy too but Trudeau cried at his funeral and called him a great leader. The guy raped his own people every day and killed, starved, and imprisoned so many others. What about understanding Atilla the Hun? Would he be cancelled from Cannes if he tried to understand Atilla? Would he have been cancelled for saying Stalin instead? OR Karl Marx? Freddy Krueger? That was when cancel culture started getting insane. We are in a moral outrage now, except the morals are inconsistent, illogical, and always shifting.

[@MsBrynnElizabeth]

It’s so organic how he achieves the end product with his actors. I love the depression trilogy (nympho, melancholia, anti) So beautiful but so disturbing…. Melancholia never fails to make me actually cry at the end.

[@kdizzle901]

Nympho is my least favorite

[@JimmyMon666]

@@kdizzle901 Nympho part 1 is passable, part 2 is terrible. It was like it was written by a 14 year old. Maybe that's what he was going for, I don't know. Melancholia is great if you disregard any of the "science stuff" in the movie and don't think about any kind of realism.

[@claudiafahey1353]

Ive watched Melancholia a number of times I find the Justine character fascinating and very relatable as Ive struggled through my own issues with depression although not as extreme as hers..gorgeous film great story music sublime... its my fav

[@r0man767]

@@JimmyMon666yeah Nymphomania in general just seems like it was made to publicly embarrass the actors who starred in it. Reminds me of the time a guy passed off extremely cheap shit tasting wine as a luxury brand and won a bunch of awards for it, except in this case it’s a bunch of Hollywood elites in deep postulation and applause over the meaning of a girl sticking a protractor in her minge. Maybe Lars is making a joke and the people who hail Nympho as a groundbreaking intellectual work just complete the punchline.

[@mikehunt42069]

Decided to watch the movie after seeing you upload this. I'm glad I did. I liked the movie and your analysis was excellent, catching a lot of symbolism my slick brain didn't catch.

[@element4element4]

I think I caused the depression of Lars von Trier. Back in first year of university, I used to work as a mailman on the weekends. One day I had to deliver a letter to Lars von Trier, a woman came out and took the letter. I assume it was his wife. Few days later all newspapers in Denmark reported that he had depression. I believe it was because of the letter I delivered. EDIT: Jokes clearly don't translate well in written form lol. The story with the letter is true, but the claim that it caused his depression was meant as a joke. It might very well have been a phone bill or something like that.

[@Billionman99]

Woah

[@Talia.777]

😆😂

[@ogdababihh309]

That's some of the most random shit I've ever heard.

[@bvanity3578]

It’s all your fault, wow

[@katierina31]

wtf 💀

[@amiatarukita1231]

“the house that jack built” is von trier’s most underrated work. imho. that movie still haunts me to the bone 🥲

[@jatochgaatjeniksaan3307]

Really? I thought it was hilarious.

[@xXx___xXx]

​@@jatochgaatjeniksaan3307I found it boring as shit lol

[@sriramsedimbi6833]

@@jatochgaatjeniksaan3307 Same lol, it gave me american psycho vibes. I found both the movies really funny

[@SHITSWEEEK]

i really liked it but it has one of the worst endings to a movie ive ever seen. idk maybe im stupid and didnt get it, but pretty sure i do. shit pissed me off with how bad it was compared to how good the rest of it was lmao

[@eduardoqquina1261]

I felt bad for Kirsten Dunst in the Cannes interview, sometimes Von Trier is way too much of a Chad to be contained.

[@MicahMicahel]

why would you feel sorry for her? She probably finds it interesting. I don't understand anyone that enjoys Von Trier movies being the safe space/triggered crowd. It makes no sense for people like you're talking about to be interested in even one of his films. They would have a nervous breakdown watching them.

[@CorbCorbin]

@@MicahMicahel Most people I see make a comment like that, are going off of Von Trier’s remarks at Cannes that one year, that many people took literally, about Nazis or Hitler. I can’t remember exactly what he said anymore, because it seemed like he was just purposely trying to shock people. I agree with you about those who work with him. I doubt there were many conservative minded people, working on Nymphomaniac, or Dancer in the Dark, for that matter. Who knows?

[@MicahMicahel]

@@CorbCorbin I remember. Your term 'conservative people' is obsolete. The left is now the censorious cancel culture social fas cist element. It was P.C. from the left that attacked Lars Von Trier. He was only purposely trying to shock people if the people had no sense of humour. He told it like a joke. The people that scream loudest about the fas costs are the people that are advocating censorship losing bodily autonomy and being okay with yeh fact that big pharma pays 75% of the advertising total. Conservatives aren't trying to censor. The guys from Southwark said they received no censorship demands fro hhej right ever. It's only been the left trying to censor and cancel them. Billionaires own Twitter and control all our information, yet Elon Musk is the one that is called a na zi because he wants free speech. People on the left think free speech is what the na zis fought for! They think they fought for bodily autonomy! I am afraid of the left because I'm an artist. anyone creative is afraid of the left.

[@legrandduca687]

He had his gamer moment

[@blackirish6868]

@@CorbCorbin Extreme lefties are typically the safe space /triggered crowd. Not conservatives.

[@sebastianalegria3401]

Von trier is arguably one of the most controversial directors ever, whose movie never stop surprising or disturbing you because of his films scenes. Furthermore, my mom and I daw his latest movie "The house that Jack built", which was like an ode to his filmography. In fact, Matt Dillon who is the movie's star, didn't want to see the movie because, he was scared.

[@tollertyp7230]

An important masterpiece from one of the most important master directors. Truly unforgettable. But watching the movie shows us, that good entertainment doesn't always include fun and popcorn-wellness. Von Trier forces us to think, to confront us with symbolism, to look behind the shocking images and behind ourselves. Anticrist is a deeply human allegory, wich makes it so unbearable. But that's just my opinion 🤷

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

You have no taste and probably a low iq

[@romainaudrerie5844]

Thank you.

[@santhyfaby]

Hi, my friend. I'm from Ecuador! I watch your videos because you're so good and because I'm learning English. You help me so much.

[@jaytravis2487]

"Hard boundaries rarely exist in nature. Man merely imposes them."-Unknown Author

[@shaggybeast0218]

The way I understood him crawling into the fox hole was him trying to escape his psycho wife. But that’s just me.

[@dennisrozman6362]

the theme of Antichrist is bitches be tripping.

[@r.i.petika829]

i think you’re right

[@bnelkin]

My man, you are producing some of the best content on KZbin right now, well done

[@landonmillerofficial]

This was a great video man. A lot of video essays on films can be shallow and pretentious but this was interesting

[@thewizard4200]

I loved it, and by the way, pain is what we escape from, grief is our condition and despair is what drives us and saves us. You can see that in the fact that the crow is the more helpful of the three beggars, he helps her find him and helps him find the wrench. I saw in those three figures a key to an evil form of witchcraft. Like a perversion of the three traditional kind of magic, pain (black magic), grief (red magic) and despair (white magic), you can easily see the perverted form of the last kind in the Bible of Satan of LaVey's church.

[@habibsawaf3753]

You explained Lars von Trier's vision in such a non condescending tone. it was really good to stumble upon this video now.

[@Ragestation]

Great videos, observant & perceptive. Excellent knowledge of film & techniques. Many more I'd love to see you cover here.

[@nikshmenga]

How depressed was Lars - poor baby - during the filming of "Dogville"?

[@DrGreg007]

One of my favorite movies. I hate movies that are predictable and tie up all the loose ends at the end. I love movies that you have to discuss with your friends because it can mean several different things to different people

[@kristenr8311]

There were some beautiful, certainly visually, scenes in this film. Thanks for the rundown of many of the filming & production techniques used. My favorite visual in this film is the slow-mo shot of She walking across the bridge.

[@pozsi417]

That's what I call quality content. Finally! Thank you, subscribed 👌

[@daveinthemicrowave]

12:07 Look on the left, the trees are warped. While watching the film I noticed this many times throughout the film, not sure if there is any deep meaning to that but I think it adds to the unsettling feeling of the film even if you only notice it subconsciously.

[@xXKingEllisXx]

relates to when willems character mentioned symptoms of anxiety, she kept experiencing all different symptoms of it including warped vision when she was in eden

[@rafaelandrade7627]

9:24 how can one not love Herzog? Dude is way too intense

[@vb_blokeboi7251]

Herzog on chickens still cracks me up

[@Dystisis]

"metaphysical" doesnt mean irrational or intuitive or emotional btw. metaphysics is logical study of the a priori preconditions of the physical world or experience.

[@anon2427]

Intangible is a better word here

[@Dystisis]

@@anon2427 agreed

[@loganwelty7094]

Excellent video mate. Legitimately one of my favorite movies. I have simply never had my mind blown like what this movie did to me.

[@esak.6245]

Amazing analysis! I loved the food recreations

[@artisanconcrete1212]

This has been a movie I've been trying to recall by name and haven't seen for the past couple years, thx now I can add it to the collection!

[@Rob-bv6ew]

I saw this film once. I felt very sick during one of the scenes. I couldn't believe they actually put it on film. During the very graphic snip snip scene I had to look away. I couldn't believe they would actually show it. It really, really really tested my ability to watch challenging films.

[@smithjarrod3935]

i don't put myself through that

[@Rob-bv6ew]

@@smithjarrod3935 I probably shouldn't either, but I like to be challenged. I don't care for broad audience pleasers.

[@amandamorgan2802]

You see? That is my point. We must draw the line somewhere.

[@binkkytube]

that was awsome thank you for making it. (I want that Bowie poster) - b xx

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

As disturbing as this one admittedly is, I actually still think Von Trier's THE ELEMENT OF CRIME from 25 years earlier is his most unnerving and oppressive work. It's so downbeat and overwhelmingly nihilistic that it basically makes the 1984 film of 1984 look like a Sesame Street episode.

[@harperproduction3935]

I had a friend once who said those exact same thing to me & I interrupted her & I regret it now. I truly wished I had been opened enough to listen, just to learn what lurks in the mind of other people despite their exterior. And also to see if she could have changed my mind or learn a different aspect of a piece of history from the "villainous side". Truly missed opportunity, that was almost 15 years ago. We lost touch as my life spiraled. She was a descendant from those Germans who settled in Chile and I am an African woman. We got on splendidly. I truly wished I had listened She should have let him finished his talk. Although on a big stage & a very influential one at that can be very dangerous too... So its difficult!

[@ciscornBIG]

Meds, please take them

[@JohnSmith-mk1rj]

That's very interesting. I'm fascinated by the human capacity to understand and, well...embrace evil as well. If we judge evil by traditional Western standards, then Hitler is on the top ten list. But in other cultures, betraying someone who trusts you is viewed as more evil than murder. Life feeds on life, but deceiving someone into trusting you and then 'flipping the script on them' is something only humans do. I could easily go on here, but yeah, I feel you. Fascination with evil, death and violence is something that humans have dealt with since we gained consciousness. It's a natural curiosity. Regarding Hitler...the truth is, man...he died badly. Weeks and weeks trapped in his lil' bunker, just waiting for the world to come and turn over the rock he was hiding under. I think it was Goebbels wife that poisoned their children before they both killed themselves? What goes through a human mind when doing this? The worst mental anguish a human can experience is to have a child die; I lost my brother when I was young and my mother literally threw herself on his casket when they went to lower it into the ground. I've seen this pain. But these parents knew it was better for the children to die painlessly, by falling asleep and slipping away, than to have them fall into the hands of the common Russian soldiers who were likely to find them. They would have been tortured, undoubtedly, and died in terror and pain. So the parents made that decision. How must that have felt? They likely welcomed their own deaths afterwards. Allegedly, the group Hitler took to the bunker with him engaged in a great deal of drug use and debauchery, as well. That must have been a weird scene. I'm thinking of this because the director mentioned the bunker before the woman told him to stop. Now...how does another human relate to, explain and rationalize Hitler? That I'd like to see. Especially from someone of German descent. Because honestly, going back to the dawn of civilization, the Germans have a history of brutality that's pretty deep. Not to mention starting not one, but two of the greatest conflicts humanity has ever known. So that would be a conversation I would engage in as well. Why? For the Lolz. Cuz exploring this stuff is interesting. That doesn't equal justifying it.

[@harperproduction3935]

@@JohnSmith-mk1rj AH! A fellow long answer writer Sorry for your pain & your loss. I totally agree with you, exploring this stuff doesn't mean we are ok with it. But part of the human experience is to also be brave enough to understand its vile counter part, because that dark side of humanity will never disappear. The best way to even protect against it, is to not just talk openly about those things, but to hear those people fully express themselves & so for those who have the stomach for it, can go inside their heads & discover or understand their psychology. No one can protect themselves against something they've never experienced I was married to a psychopath for over 20 years & I had no idea. Not a clue. And it was pure chance coming across an article on the internet, that I finally had the answer to all the questions I had accumulated in my head & heart. Because the dude was making no sense, & yet he was successful, great family & friends And he never hit me or raised his voice, but he fucked me up good, as well as our kids, who are now on drugs, possibly alcoholics & totally depend on him, which is what he wanted all along. Who does that to their own kids. Sabotage your own kids, while being a big wig in a company like Halliburton? And testing high on the Mensa tests. And yet reducing your own kids into barely educated bums. Yet people like that exist. Hitler killed his own people. My ex-destroyed his own family & sabotaged his own kids. Is there really a big difference between those two types of individuals? Those are things that we need to study openly in society. I feel. We need to know what they are thinking.

[@JohnSmith-mk1rj]

@@harperproduction3935 I don't mean to write long posts, they just get away from me, I swear! 😂 For the record, I loathe the modern ADD having 'TL;DR' crowd. I bet nearly all of them don't even know what the semi colon is, and that's the only time they use it. That being said - I'm very sorry to hear about your situation. That must be a constant source of misery for you. I've seen similar situations - I mean, we both grew up in an era when it was perfectly normal for parents to beat the living daylights out of their kids. And I grew up poor, eating mayonnaise and mustard sammiches in a roach infested apartment. In a neighborhood where poverty was just the norm and we all viewed it like it was just our lot in life. The Bronx, NYC's poorest borough. I'm still here, but I'm no longer poor. I've also survived a bunch of my own tragedies. After my brother died my mother descended into alcoholism, pushing my father away although he never left. He slept in his car outside our building so often it was crazy. I left as soon as I could, but that just resulted in me being a homeless heroin addict living on the E train as a teen. I ended up marrying my high school sweetheart, but she lost her battle with depression and deliberately overdosed in a seedy hotel when I told her we needed to quit and she ran off. I lost my mind for a couple of years and was back on the E train (couldn't stay in the apartment we shared), and one night I got jumped while I was sleeping and was nearly beaten to death. A friend found me in the hospital and literally saved me, giving me a couch and support until I got on my feet and began leading a 'normal' life. But when you've dealt with the stuff that we have, and survived it, you always think 'someone else has it worse,' and people from our generation tend to tough it out, instead of blaming all our problems on the 'trauma' we suffered growing up, or are still suffering. We hope we can fix it. Make it better if we work at it. Or we bury it and soldier on. But I've seen spouses of both genders do what you described to their families, and it's twisted. I'm on friendly terms with a psychopath for decades now - he hates that I can see through his manipulation and little plots and schemes. I think he's funny because he's honest about it with me. With others, I just laugh when I watch him 'work' people. He's very subtle, but people don't see it and I'm like 'how do they not see through his line of crap?' Cuz he's friggin' good at it, that's how. He's been getting over this whole life. He's fine tuned his act until it's perfect now. He's ruined this wife to the point where she can't use the cable remote without his help. He's been living on the fringes of society forever, so he uses all her personal info for everything. She loves/hates him to death. She retired from nursing a couple years ago, and that hastened her degeneration to the point where she's bedridden for much of her days now - bottles of booze and pills at the bedside. He's bored of her now, so he's on the prowl for someone new to ruin. Any example of his manipulative ability - he has no desire to work, of course, so he convinced the system that's he's disabled. He gets monthly checks, a NYC debit card to buy food, and free health insurance. Since he's 'disabled,' he set up a bunch of doctor's appointments for his 'chronic pain.' Before he went to these appointments, he did research to learn the symptoms for all the drugs he wanted to get prescriptions for. The vaguer, the better, of course. He managed to get lifetime prescriptions for drugs like Oxycodone, Xanax, valium...about 8 to 10 of them. He manages his own addiction to the opioids, and sells the rest for a considerable amount every month. It would be genius if it wasn't so twisted. He knew better than to bring a child into the world, however. Since psychopathy runs in his family, he said 'my bloodline ends with me.' He's also the person that found me in the hospital and saved me. Crazy, right? I've analyzed our relationship from every angle, and yes - we're friends. I know that psychopaths need someone to know how smart they are, to show off their intelligence and crimes to. What's the point otherwise, right? So that's the function I serve in his life. Honestly, I enjoy his company, as long as he doesn't try any of his crap on me. LOL. Long ago, when I was a street urchin, I was sitting on a couch with a friend, and I deliberately convinced him to get up and go get me a soda just to see if I could. When he did it, I was like, 'wow. This is a powerful ability,' and that led me being a manipulative bastard for many years. But I was on the streets, where you need abilities like that. Now I'm deliberately NOT like that, and I admonish my psychopath friend constantly. 'You're just the worst,' I tell him. He shrugs and agrees. He never apologizes, ever. I respect him for that. I know dudes that beat their wives - I look down on them, and will never be friends with someone that does that. And I draw the line at anyone that would wreck their kids. Like beating a woman, since their kids and look up to their fathers, there's nothing to be proud of yourself for when you crush their spirits. It's so easy - they're children with a childs intellect. Why would you even do that? Why do psychopaths do anything? Because they can, I think? My friend would have done it so he could milk them for money. Your husband, however, seems to make my friend look mild by comparison. Your husband might be genuinely evil. I just consider my friend malicious. Does living with evil, surviving evil give us a proclivity to be curious about it? Maybe. But you know what's crazy? There's thousands of hours of content in KZbin about Hitler. But God forbid you discuss him in the manner we discussed and the director of this film did. Suddenly we have 'issues' and 'need meds.' That's ridiculous. The FBI tries to catch serial killers alive so they can study them. You're absolutely right - maybe if we could understand and recognize truly evil humans before they can...let's say 'evolve into their final form,' we could stop history from repeating itself? Or put serial killers someplace safe before they start their killing sprees? That's why it's worth it to try to understand evil, I think. Sorry for rambling. LOL. And I genuinely hope that you can pull your children from whatever dark places they're in. Your absolutely sound smart and tough enough to do it. And someday our bad times HAVE to and. They just have to, right? I'm an agnostic, but I have conversations with God all the time. And I've discussed that very subject with him many times. He knows the deal. 😆

[@marinaburatino]

@@JohnSmith-mk1rj God, if he's still aware here with us, probably didn't start creating with this intentions, that his... kids, creations, just manipulate eachother and hurt and profit and so on on such a scale... he must be sad, if he's still aware and not just unconsciously creating.... if he hears us now, i'm sending him my love and... a big hug

[@bboldt2]

It seems the films of Michael Haneke are made for Kino Corner, yet I find no reviews or comments on this darkest of directors.

[@StainsStainsStains]

There's two things that always come up when analyzing any work by von Trier. 1.) Dafoe's member and 2.) the Cannes incident.

[@PatrickWDunne]

Fun fact: This movie was heavily influenced by Tarkovsky.... and probably Salo

[@thunder_heads]

Definitely

[@thunder_heads]

@@davidsheriff9274 mutilation and rape

[@floydblandston108]

@@thunder_heads - a very shallow connection.

[@wood18net]

@@floydblandston108 what ? its very on point and Trier is happy about it : “It's the closest I've got to a religion - to me he is God. And if I didn't dedicate the film to Tarkovsky, then everyone would say I was stealing from him. If you are stealing, then dedicate.”

[@larahamilton2273]

Loved your Analysis and review!

[@Fr6]

I feel like we're best friends in a parallel universe. Great content

[@richcampus]

6:07 "...quality of...the commitment to pretending..." ☻️"...requires massive amounts of light ✨️ ..."...☻️ 7:05 "Rules Of Regret" 😎☻️🕳 7:26 "Himan World 🌎 Animal Kingdom" 🤴 👑 14:35 "Human Characters Into Architypes" ♥️ 👌 •••3•••Beggars; Pain, Grief, & Despair Symbolized by The Deer, Fox, and The Crow........

[@karolyberczi731]

Great work by me and my inspiration!

[@lennardw.9841]

I like this kind of kino content!

[@tiziocaio8820]

I watched this movie as a kid with my father... Needless to say it probably messed me up in some way 😅

[@amandamorgan2802]

I can see I won't bother to watch this movie if animal cruelty is so rampant. Using a spade to bludgeon an animal? Or is that also make-believe? It seems directors want to project their evil,violent and twisted tendensies into movies these days. Lets see how we can shock and disgust our audience. At what point,must you take a stand and simply distantiate yourself from something that is not uplifting? Nowadays, cinema extreme is also a new genre.Not everything needs to be explored.. And I AM an open minded- person.

[@misscanada18]

I'm so glad I found you tonight. You deserve all of the sucess. Great work.

[@ulf___]

Lars Von Trier has a talent of transmitting his depression to others through his film. I think it was a good film but I will never watch it again.

[@theresamiley8917]

Great video; thanks for analyzing.

[@winstonsmithsoul]

It’s a fine line between drawing the viewer into the themes and shocking them to distraction. I found the “snip scene”, so graphic and unnerving, I struggled trying to forget that scene. I’m left with.... was that a prop? Or was it real?. It looked real.

[@Guratza]

excellent video

[@TheChadTI]

8:18 Didn't expect that😂

[@metalboxman99]

The roast beef sandwich gag made me Lol...

[@kassandrakid9440]

I cannot be the only person that thinks the "Chaos reigns" scene is hilarious.

[@Brasilbrasiliado]

me lmao

[@kassandrakid9440]

@ and it only took two years! Thank fucking God lol!

[@Brasilbrasiliado]

@@kassandrakid9440 the fox is funny on the way it says it and i think the editing is hilarious lol

[@kassandrakid9440]

@@Brasilbrasiliado totally

[@diafenix]

This movie analysis was so good that is unholy. *amazing job mr kino*

[@jlo1195]

Anti does not mean to be against or opposite.....it' means "in absent of"......To be Anti-Christ simply means that person wants to be Christ! Anti-Christ = in the absent of Christ, you got him instead. Anti-hero....in the absent of the hero, you got the villain instead. Anti-Government means in the absent of the government, you got them instead.....today's modern definition is a misnomer.

[@lwwells]

This movie climaxes to a scene about penis mutilation. Which part of the ‘human condition’ was that one?

[@tugbacnarl6060]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 really good video, subscriberd already

[@ellebell9139]

The reenactments were highly appreciated

[@dilansmithee503]

"CHAOS EMERALDS!"

[@ariananegron4679]

Subscribed!! I agree completely and enjoy you

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

Only low iq morons liked this movie and women shouldn’t watch this crap anyways.

[@neilmacleod1855]

This is such a fantastic video

[@christiananderson4909]

Rewatched this the other day. It held up.

[@cookedsalami]

Gang gang so true kino!!!!

[@PatrickWDunne]

Can we get a review of Melancholia too?

[@anniethenonnymouse]

Great analysis! I was so stunned the first time I watched Antichrist, I rewatched it immediately. It's a masterpiece, but it is SO painful to watch. Von Trier is brilliant at making the viewer experience the truth in the story in the deepest ways. In my interpretation, the Man is Evil, gaslighting and manipulating the Woman into madness. He kills Her, and the feminine spirits of the woods arise to avenge her. There are so many layers of meaning in this film-- thank you for exploring so many of them!

[@vranime3772]

She was mad before his therapy, as evidence by the wrongness of the shoes

[@anniethenonnymouse]

@@vranime3772 Mad with grief. He wasn't interested in helping her, only in making her stop.

[@joelgibson7413]

Slay female supremacy

[@frankbooth2427]

I'm happy to see a woman's interpretation of the film. I'm genuinely interested in how/why you see it that way. Do you care to expound on your interpretation? Particularly why you feel the that "the Man is Evil". Are you pulling from personal experience with a manipulating man or specific examples of manipulation in the film? Thank you. Looking forward to understanding more!

[@c2e.7877]

@@frankbooth2427 i think on both. I can't speak for this person ofc, but I can give my two cents. I will start off that I don't like either character. I understand how they both act the way they do sometimes more, sometimes less. One inside was where she started saying that he never cared about her until she experienced grief, that he wasn't an present husband or father. He tries to kind of hide from her, or it seems like he is very uncomfortable. Then in the way he handles her outburst, starting when she gets home, and is just severely depressed. He wants her to stop using her meds. A big no go, idc if he is a therapist, never do therapy on people that are involved in your private life. A friend of mine had a therapist father, he worked specialised in addiction, but did therapy for his son who was depressed, suicidal, anxiety ridden and so on, he had lots of problems. They never had a good relationship, but that completely ruined it, no wonder why. Medicine is a good way to get better, speak from experience, because without it I wouldn't be at this point of life. Let's focus on them. He belittles her anxiety attacks. A common problem with therapists, they know the theoretical part, but it's impossible for them to know how painful it is, like they have a clue but you need to feel it. Another thing, we only see him one time actively grief. I don't think that he doesn't miss him, him breaking down at the funeral is enough proof, but it is unreal how almost calm he reacts to certain things. She herself ain't good either, I think she is even worse. The things she does are copying mechanisms, but of the really bad way. She wrote against violence against women, then only to justify those deaths. The men being evil has to do with many things, but to focus on the film, witches. Who burned and accused those as witches? Men in the church, men in general. Why is Lilith, the first woman, portrayed as a demon, even though she wanted equality. She was used as the symbol of rebellious women who wanted to be equal. With that women, she seems to blame Satan and witches for her thoughts, let's just say her desire. Nature is evil, the human nature is evil, those corpses of the witches became the soil, under the trees. Also I don't agree with the ending that he will be attacked by those ghosts. Why? He killed her for a reason. She tortured him nonetheless. My getaway is women support women who did things for a justified reason. It ain't the case here, so why should they care? Both men and women are in the wrong here. Can you understand something, I write so horrible here, so sorry.

[@yannickp3085]

Amazing video!

[@brucecoleman4228]

Why not mention the actresses name? Its Charlotte Gainsborough isnt it?

[@parisulki729]

10:27 Antichrist's evil influence is so strong, that for a second you turned into Jordan Peterson

[@Justin-vq9co]

I get what your saying but I wouldn’t view large scale admissions of human tragedy as wrong. It’s scary sure, but I think it’s actually why JP advocates for knowing what to love and seek in life. He’s probably seen a lot more of those inner workings that people do experience than you have. That being said, I did find this comment a bit hilarious so hey

Like Fernando Pessoa said about people to think too much about these things: "metaphisics is the consequence of one being mind-sick".

[@floydblandston108]

I love his films, and attempting to share them with others has proven...ummm, problematic. These are *not* 'date movies'. 😆😂

[@MicahMicahel]

maybe you're not dating the right people.

[@floydblandston108]

@@MicahMicahel - Ahem...the number of; 1. Young female Lars Von Trier fans... 2. Who are 'hot' enough to interest me... 3. Who are 'available'.... 4.....and *not* immediately, outwardly and visibly insane. 5. Who are willing to date me.... is a staggeringly small and statistically insignificant number. The closest I've come is one who, after several earthshakingly excellent 'dates', casually whispered that her favorite film was 'Fatal Attraction'.🤣

[@MicahMicahel]

@@floydblandston108 THat's so odd. I'm generation x so the girls I dated were game for wild stuff. I didn't date people that wanted to watch Rom Comedies. I remember there was still the majority of women that wanted rom coms only but almost all the ones I ever dated were totally into shows that I would pick. Dating seems weird nowadays. I find it hard to believe how different women are now. The safe space mentality seems to have infected personalities. Someone was telling me how they take a film class and a bunch pop people walk out after the instructor gives trigger warnings about the shows. I know women aren't this lame because I remember when they weren't. I knew women that liked Chuck Palaniuk. To challenge my point, I did have a fondness for your #4, but crazy girls nowadays are probably no fun, whereas in the past they were the most fun.

[@TheVolginator]

@@floydblandston108 my wife introduced me to Lars work on our third date. I knew she was a keeper from that day

[@floydblandston108]

@@TheVolginator - damn right! You're a very lucky man.🙂

[@AverageJohanson]

I definitely should not have watched this at 14

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

Yes. Your parents should be ashamed.

[@katierina31]

@@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579 Your parents should be ashamed of YOUR name lmaooo

[@deadboybeats1]

Very good chanel man, keep doing what you're doing : )

[@Evelyn-pl3we]

The scene with bugs/ticks on his pen!s traumatized me.

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

Why are you watching such garbage anyways?

[@DamnDev1]

@@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579 why are you even commenting on a video about said garbage anyways?

[@jevinday]

Great video! We need more videos about von Trier that show him for who he is. He gets a bad rap and I get it I guess, but I think he's a genius.

[@lanbearofficial6168]

hail Kino Corner. 🤘😁🤘

[@ab-gail]

So it’s a messed story of Adam and Eve (perhaps post the death of Able considering what happened to their child here)? It certainly looks more interesting than I thought it would be. Love high symbolism movies. I’ve only seen Melancholia from Trier and those slow motion scenes are mesmerizing! Thanks Kino!

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

I can't help but notice you have a Time Bandits map on the wall. First, that's awesome. My favorite movie ever. Second, it's sideways lol :)

[@Truffle_Pup]

Willem's monster dong is so famous by now that we knew it had to be mentioned. Fair play.

[@mattdamon9326]

They were from porn stars.

[@Anthonydanells]

I found it interesting that she was eden, while eve was swayed to eat the forbidden fruit (more prone to sin, violence and such) and enticed adam in joining her in sin or be separated

[@winstonwolf5706]

I thought it was also an allegory for depression. With Dafoe walking past all those dead bodies, then climbing that hill before seeing all those other people following him out.

[@gigstar3194]

I HATE THE ANTICHRIST, I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!!

[@asneakylawngnome5792]

That’s dope

[@citizensguard3433]

Why does my guy look like if Willem Defoe and Alfread Molina merged together in some strange "Yes, I was in the Toby Mcguire Spider Man Movies, thanks for asking" osmosis, to form a hybrid form of the two of them?

[@VinluvAntonHandesbukia]

Clearly not enough SotM screentime for the algorithm to pick it up

[@rozzy3528]

"I think he did some wrong things but"

[@katierina31]

“but” is not always used as a way to excuse the prior statement. It can be used to contrast it. I think people who grew up with a different language other than English use it in the second way a lot more.

[@rebeccahopkins9522]

This highly misunderstood, brave, unique and existential feast for the eyes is an utter masterpiece, and a favorite of mine. I don’t care about the people behind it; von trier’s despicable baggage means nothing to me. I’m capable of separating art from the artist, but aware enough to understand that many people cannot. I won’t defend his behavior. However, I will defend the brilliance of ANTICHRIST. It’s not misogynistic or women hating. It’s a hating of the darkness within human nature, and a standing ovation for the truth of things- that no matter how much our nature tells us to try and control things, other people and ourselves, our lives and decisions, the very world around us, to the point where we even try and control when we die and do anything to extend our lives, control is actually an illusion. At the root of it all, it’s chaos that reigns. Yet sometimes it’s the very darkness deep within human nature itself that invites that chaos to do just that. And there is nothing to be done about it except to accept that there are things beyond our control. And for me, that’s the true meaning of this film. And this film truly is a masterpiece.

[@Sangth123]

The narrative implication that I got was that the two noticed their child about to fall out the window right as they climaxed, meaning they could have saved their kid if they stopped but didn't, and spend the rest of the film in guilt.

[@MadamFoogie]

Okay, you got me with the toilet paper roll nailed to your leg. At least I hope it's a toilet paper roll. Either way, good gag.

[@D00M3R-SK8]

1:21 Kirsten Dunst, oh wow man. I think she is my favourite Move Star of all time (like if we're talking attractiveness, she is gorgeous)

[@Rm9512]

didn't expect to get told to get checked out lol 😭

[@rica3863]

that fox was so cute saying chaos reigns omg

[@mikeokeeffe4692]

I was using my firestick and went to reluctantly rewatch 'Hereditary' which I (unpopularly) did not like in the cinema when it was released. I went to rewatch it just out of some stubborn reluctance becuase it wasn't a film that affected me, or my brother... but everybody and their brother held it so highly. I honestly just watched it to see if I might have been in the wrong mood at the time, or something like. I didn't want to. But I was prepared to. My point is that the actual file under the 'Hereditary' title was what I now know by its title 'Nymphomaniac' It was on for around 6 minutes before I clicked and realised that I wasn't even watching the film I thought I was... and I was high and realised that it wasn't the right movie but I skipped forward the first 20 mins and was like 'Oh this is a Shia Le Beouf movie... so I watched it from there. So almost non contextually I left it play from there... and; I was kind of amused shocked and just a minute or so into the play mark 20 mins into still getting over that I spent 6 whole minutes in my own head telling myself to watch what I thought was the twice aforementioned 'Hereditary' ; convinced and pissed off that it would be a waste of time...but whatever... I had tried to really press play on the movie and watch it again many times and just watched something else I actually wanted to watch... Shit sorry, Im not really making my point am I... but I realised that this was a seriously different film within a minute or two after this point... and the movie just kicked with a film so raw and unflinching, and dark, and honest, and sad, and real - shocking and not an easy watch in parts. Understatement. I got to around 50 mins to the end and the file finished. Now I technically haven't seen Nymphomaniac in the regard that I missed the start and the last portion of the movie, so that's a given, but what I did see, and when I realised after google-ing Shia Le Beouf movies what the movie was actually called, I was left with a totally unique cinema experience in the film and its characters, and that fact that it wasn't a conventional or even likeable movie for many people in my mind ; it was so on the limits of what I ever expected before, I didn't have to guess that a sizeable portion of people couldn't or wouldn't watch this film. It was horrific and honest for the characters and the fact that you at times as the watcher are seeing people who have agreed to portray this material called actors but they are really literally spitting breathing and bleeding for this movie... moments where you have to remind yourself to not think about that becuase you are not catching what is being said or done fully, and then consciously volunteer to watch and just go with the movie... go on in that intention, almost. It was a movie that left me conflicted, and it was very interesting becuase none of it was out of reality. All the matters and themes were everywhere, every day, somewhere with someone in life but we don't get so much of that mirror to society and humanity in such explicit and unabashed brutal realism - and really see that much of an uncompromising and brilliant of a film in the mainstream - FOR ME. I don't see much cinema like this. I don't like to watch films for shock value or notoriety alone. I'd heard of the movie and heard it reviewed briefly in some videos... but the general consensus being that it was being described as... I didn't seek it out and in heindsight I found that interesting too. Anyway, that was 4 months ago. I haven't finished it or rewatched it yet. However the reference of the trilogy by Gus was also a common point made and I thought 'no way I'm in a hurry to watch 3 films that sound really dark or uncomfortable rn' as I was recovering and coming to terms with having a severely broken jaw set upper and lower ...and as well as looking like an absoloute horror film myself, metal wires and broken teeth and such... very brutal injuries.. I would have never ever sought it out. I scrolled past it in the previous weeks on my firestick a bunch of times before this, as it was on in its own correct file and poster, too, obviously, so I did suspect this was the case when I carried on watching it by mistake as above...but not Googleing it for confirmation until it cut off on me. And so, I, at the time was just stunned. I felt how I was led to presume or believe that 'Hereditary' made other people feel. I will go back and see the rest of this movie one day but, who knows, I might not. Additionally, I never got round to rewatching 'Hereditary' yet. I mean, not even close. This looked like an out there movie, and I have barely saw anything like it in general, before or since. Shit this comment is long I'm high yes just incase you wanted to suspect but... hey who writes an essay on YT comments... but fuck it. I just did. If you read all this, you're a comment trooper. Took me 40 mins ffs 😂

[@grenadedFalafel]

Bro that roast beef cut was wild..........

[@bigsandvvich6167]

Mr. The Kino Corner, I want to learn about dogme 95 but there's no links in the description :( great video btw

[@judsongaiden9878]

7:47 Gmork's little cousin. Btw, the antichrist mentioned in the Book of Revelation is all about order, not chaos. But it's a turbo-fashy ultra-imperialist ancient-Rome-with-modern-technology iron-heeled jackboot goosestepping police state concept of "order." 9:14 And who made nature? It wasn't Satan. 10:38 The ancient Romans (proto-fascists) were all about "order." Why is order assumed to be inherently good? Why is chaos assumed to be inherently bad? What about the Czech Resistance creating chaos as an act of rebellion against the Nazi occupation of what was then Czechoslovakia? The Czech Resistance was backed by the British Empire, btw, and they were also order-mongers (but not to the same extent as the Nazis who were the Romans of that epoch of history). 10:40 A wiser fella than muhself once said, "As you know, the id wasn't meant to be starved." The Woman in this story absolutely is evil, though, so don't misunderstand what I'm saying. The id, like chaos, isn't inherently evil unless it leads to criminality. The superego, like order, isn't inherently good because it can lead to tyranny. And the ego isn't evil just because it seeks personal achievement (which is, after all, what drives the engine of true progress). Violent criminality is evil, sure, but tyranny (order without justice) is even eviler. 10:48 That's quite the Jungian interpretation. Dig it! But from a "natural law" perspective, he's just defending himself against a psychotic lunatic. 12:04 Who wasn't influenced by Tarkovsky?! Btw, have you seen 'Stalker'? 12:44 See also Clive Barker. Btw, don't most right-hand-path religions teach their adherents to avoid pleasure and embrace pain? Wouldn't most rational people consider that psychotic? Chaotic, even? Ah, but it's meant to impose order, not create mayhem. Because pursuing one's own individual desires is self-liberating and self-liberation is chaos. Right? Because "order" requires obedience, oppression, and conformity. 12:49 'Cemetery Man' explores similar ideas, but does so using very different motifs. That "Eros versus Thanatos" sort of thing is straight outta Freud. 15:04 Which is which, though? I'm guessing pain is id (masochism), grief is ego (obsession with failure), despair is superego (internalized oppression).

[@derek96720]

Resistance forces creating chaos is in itself an act of order though. It's thousands of disparate individuals coming together with unified action and purpose.

[@Justin-vq9co]

Very interesting takes

[@deb1847]

Danish people are super genius. Niels Bhor, Soren kierkegard, and Von trier to name a few

[@vgmaster9]

Don't forget Nicolas Winding Refn.

[@lucferfan2052]

What a sick person who made the movie

[@JustDatBoi]

Just a pretentious one. The sicker it is, the artsier it is too many. As long as it’s shot somewhat well.

[@Benjamin_jesutin]

Please 🙏, I can't find any links. Send it to me here, I'll like to watch some of ur movies 😥

[@Anicius_]

9:50 how did he manage to film this

[@Terrorvision2]

Trying to eat through your own intestines to nourish yourself. What nourishes us also destroys, or whatever that line is.

[@maxisong9601]

I f..cking love your content

[@ReggieMoo]

can’t wait to show this to my friends to see their reactions

[@langerlord]

This is a really good video.

[@analeyesanalyzeanallies5579]

For a low iq moron

[@psymcdad8151]

"I understand Hitler" I think this is an important point that for some reason nobody realy picks up for serious debate. See, we are all the heroes in the story we tell to ourselfe in our mind about ourselfe. What kind of Hero was Hitler in his own mind? We always see Hitler as this ultimate Vilain, but there is a reason that, before WW2, a lot of people followed him. Hitler did not wake up in the morning and thinking to himselfe 'Muahaha! I will go down in history as the most brutal and unjustified mass-murderer EVAR!' Hitler did have reasons to act the way he did. Not good reasons, not decent reasons, not even logical reasons. But reasons he believed in none-the-less. 'understanding Hitler', without agreeing with or supporting him, by just following his logic to get a grasp on why he came to those horrible conclusions, is a damn dificult pitch to sell to the public of a post WW2 world. And I, personaly, think this is what Lars did try here. Not because he is a Nazi-Hitler-Sympathizer, but because he thinks he has a grasp on the concept of 'Hero Hitler' that Hitler had runing in his mind. So, if we follow that line of thought; Lars von Trier's movies do not have a real antagonist. There is no 'Bad Guy'. Its different people with entirely incompatible world views crashing into each other, and then observing the inevitable trainwreck. Its a marvel to behold, and nauseating to watch. The fact that, by cinemar-logic, one worldview needs to win in the end, does not make any of his movies an easy watch. ...at least, thats my point of view. Feel free to differ.