ANTICHRIST -- a movie with awful things happening in it.

[Dave (imported)]

>>I really didn't know how to word this post. Is this going too far in a movie? I don't need an answer to that question.

>>Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not squeamish but I find it hard when so many other movies have handled the "revenge" plotline, that this one has to come so close to actually showing the event.

>>This movie is up there with HOSTEL and some of the other blood fests that appear on the screen.

>>These movies have been called "death-porn" and "torture-porn" by some. I don't call it that but if I am warned, I might think twice about seeing it or a silly comedy.

>>Some days I want to be made happy and laugh at my entertainment.

>>

So What Happens to Willem Dafoe’s Genitals in Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, Anyway?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/20 ... itals.html

Leave it to Lars von Trier to spoil a perfectly pleasant Sunday evening at Cannes with graphically depicted sexual mutilation. The director's Antichrist — starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as a husband and wife grieving the death of their young son — made its debut at the film festival yesterday, earning loud boos and baffled reviews. Why? The movie features graphic sex and a talking fox, but most controversial, apparently, are a pair of vivid scenes in which Gainsbourg's character, who's off her meds, commits acts of unprintable violence on the couples' genitals (raves Variety: "[she] finds a way to impale him that Hollywood's leading torture-porn experts will kick themselves over not having dreamed up first"). So what does she do, exactly? Read on only if you want to skip lunch and cross your legs for the rest of the day!

We suppose the following could technically be considered a spoiler, though we can't imagine anyone would want to be taken by surprise by something like this in a movie theater. Are you sure you actually want to read this? Really? Really?? Okay!

So far, no review has gone into gruesome details, though, from what we gather, here's how it goes down, more or less: After knocking him unconscious, Gainsbourg bores a hole in Dafoe's leg with a hand drill and bolts him to a grindstone to keep him from escaping. Then, she smashes his scrotum with some sort of blunt object (the moment of impact happens slightly below the frame). We don't actually see his testicles become disengaged from this body, though it's apparently implied. Next, she brings him to a climax with her hands and he ejaculates blood (yes, it's shown). But that's not all! Later, in an extreme closeup — lensed by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle! — Gainsbourg cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of scissors.

So, as you might've guessed, Antichrist is one of those love-it-or-hate-it movies. Roger Ebert calls it "the most despairing film I've ever have seen." Jeffrey Wells brands it a "fartbomb." Movieline's David Bourgeois says it's "the most original and thought-provoking work von Trier has done since Breaking the Waves." Variety's Todd McCarthy, who must've been seated in the same row as Wells, says the movie "cuts a big fat art-film fart." Our favorite reaction, though, is from the Times's Manohla "Movie Killer" Dargis, who Ebert says he heard singing "That's Entertainment!" as she left the theater.

[chilliwilli (imported)]

...so I take it the film failed to live up to it's title. But it sure sounds like a winner to me.

(I wonder how much they'd payed the stunt double...hell I'd do it for a catered lunch and a bus ticket!)

chilli-

[gareth19 (imported)]

Latex is the single most important actor in Hollywood, or apparently in the indies.

[chilliwilli (imported)]

Latex is the single most important actor in Hollywood, or apparently in the indies.

Yes...I understand this but some of us are...well...severely allergic to the stuff and...well...um...we require the real deal.

Oh how humiliating...my robe please...PLEASE!!!!!!!

chilli-

[Riverwind (imported)]

In days of old,

when knights were bold,

They would wrap a sock,

around there cock,

and baby's were prevented.

so who needs Latex?

River

[A-1 (imported)]

In days of old,

when knights were bold,

They would wrap a sock,

around there cock,

and baby's were prevented.

so who needs Latex?

River

YEAH! What's the problem? I, myself, have been an anarchist since at least 1969! And I have been a MEMBER here since the inception of this place.

Besides that, one trip to the archive and all the mangled genitalia strangled bodies, blood, gore and gloom, the horror of your people being DIS-membered (wink, smile ) ... I mean, well, what in the hell could shock you about a friggin' movie, for Christ's sakes?

I mean, HELL!, they could have found the script in the Eunuch Archive stories. Good thing she didn't chew him off and she just bolted his pecker to the old grindstone. Otherwise, I would have sued them for plagiarism. (http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/O/ea_231703oral_nul.htm) I mean, youse people, this place would scare the penis right off of John Wayne Bobbit and make Lorena Bobbit nauseated with the gore...

After being here for a while you ought to realize how twisted the world is. And how twisted we are... I truly think that we are not as twisted as the rest of society. For the most part we are kinder to each other here than co-workers are to each other in most workplaces...

What's that, Antichrist, NOT anarchist? :-\ Nevermind...

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