I went yesterday for a double feature of Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell and Lars von Trier's Antichrist. The two films have quite a bit in common as both deal with the fall from heaven. People warned me that it is a gruesome film. Not at all. It is similar to Bergman's psychological films, perhaps Fanny and Alexander, except a few seconds here and there where you have to close your eyes. Besides that it is a psychological research on people, or should I say women? The film also reminded me several conversations here on THINQon, such as: The allure of wilderness.

Eyal Peretz, in his book Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses (a brilliant book on cinema), describes De Palma films as red on white. Antichrist is red on green.

The last image of the film (sorry for the quality, this is the only one I managed to find. the background is green):


And during the film:

Notice the green of the toilet, and the stain of blood on it.

And released to the press (probably), Lars von Trier:


Red on Green - Nature's violence. Nature is the church of the antichrist she says in the movie; where Chaos reigns.

I won't say much about the film. If people want to start a conversation I will gladly join in, but I am not sure I want to start essentially describing the movie, but I did want to note the above about the film. It was also the first time (I think) I understood why the Hulk is green. It's his nature cutting loose.

What is female nature? What do you think? The film presents a tough position on female nature, how should we read this? Should we really simply read the characters as he and she, male and female, or not?