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This is also a pivotal point in the Malleus Maleficarum, which the female character has become so obsessed with, while researching for her thesis on witchcraft and demonology. In Genesis, it is the woman who permits Satan to enter the earthly paradise. The mention of the name Eden connotes negativity towards women. The man, who is a therapist, believes that she can be cured by affronting her fears in their cabin, which is in a forest called Eden. When their son dies through their neglect, the woman becomes so overcome by guilt that she succumbs to depression. The last letter ‘t’ in the title is replaced by the female sex symbol.Īntichrist’s plot evolves around a man and a woman whose names we are never given. In her Studies in Religion and Reception (2011), Buch-Hansen notes that the proof that females in general are the target of Von Trier’s ire is in the symbol within the word Antichrist on the poster (Thomsen, 2009). To Paglia, Antichrist manages to merge these ages-old ideas and conceptions “into a wondrous, cinematic universe by Von Trier’s imagination” (Laura, H. She likens man’s fear of woman to the fear of the vastness and mysteriousness of nature. The American feminist Camille Paglia argues that men are afraid of the mystery of woman, especially in relation to her powers of fertility (Laura, H. This is an attempt to discover exactly what makes Antichrist such a target for angry criticism, as well as to interpret its’ symbolism through applying feminist theories. Such consultant was employed to furnish Lars with ‘proof’ of ‘the fact’ that women are evil, using sources that go back to Aristotle, who described the female as a “mutilated male” (Raphael, A. This time, such accusations would have been hard to pass off as superficial, especially since at the end of the film he credits a ‘misogyny consultant’ (Raphael, A. 118), are two examples of strongly critical statements that the film has received. This film can be described as a “psychological drama about the couple’s different responses to the loss of their child” (Buch-Hansen, 2011).Ĭlaims that Antichrist’s view towards women is “the most openly, psychopathically hostile” (Tookey, C, 2009), and that the film “confirms and legitimizes sexual violence against women” (Jensen, 2009, cited in Buch-Hansen, 2011, p. However, none of these seem to have gathered as much hate from the feminist camp as Antichrist (2009). Lead characters in Von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy