The internet has broken down all ethnic barriers and has spread through all the earth. The world is becoming One through the internet. The Beast is the Antichrist and his one world empire which is happening or becoming right now. If you read in the book of Revelation chapter 17 you read of the Beast and the women who rides upon the scarlet beast is Babylon the whore and the beast turns on her and kills her.
He has had the means by which he can have children taken away so that none can come after him or say supplant him. Notice that the faces of those women at the epilogue are all blurred out as if they have no identity with him for he regards them not. In the end succumbs to this ideology that his wife has embraced. It is like an Anti-Garden of which a man who loves and is deeply concerned for his wife is set on a path that will end up with him eventually hating her and maybe hating all women. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. The reason for this comes from a verse in the book of Daniel, chapter 11: verse 37: I feel that this film is about an individual (man) and the circumstances that are preparing him to become the Antichrist. The film is named emphatically and simply Antichrist. My thoughts about this film are rather different than most as I am looking at this film from a christian point of view. This analytical discussion of the film between Rob White (Film Quarterly) and philosopher Nina Power is an interesting place to start. I don't think you will find an authoritative answer to your question. The symbols in this film are from deep within the psyche of the artist, but his joke suggest a Biblical theme. Why it is as it is," he says finally, "It is a bit like asking the "I am really the wrong person to ask what the film means or 'Forgive me, for I know not what I do.'" This precipitates a bout of Images came to me and I did not question them. "Truthfully, I can only say I was driven to make the film, that these
It served as his means to survival, forcing him to get out of bed to write ten pages each day. Note that he is eating berries on his way out - the bramble a symbol of Christ (think thorny crown).Īs noted in another question about this film, Lars von Trier wrote this film in the depths of depression. It is a story that presumes Eden is the work of Satan, and the expulsion this time can be seen as a positive (in traditional terms), a move toward God instead of away from God. In the Bible version of the story, Eden is the work of God and eating the fruit means Adam and Eve are cast from the garden for yielding to Satan's temptation. The whole Eden story is about eating from the tree of knowledge (and there are many ways to interpret that one!). There are references in the film to witchcraft, and one has to remember that women who were accused of witchcraft were often mystics or inclined to intuitive knowledge rather than actual "witches." This could be seen as a release of "feminine knowledge" which in the time of witch hunts was seen as evil, but which is really the powerful intuition we all access at times - knowledge from inside. It feels like the women have been released by the death of She. The women at the end, who were perhaps somehow the same as the fragments of women entwined in the tree roots earlier in the film, are climbing - Heaven is up. She crippled her son, in Eden She tries to cripple her husband She tries to neuter both of them, removing the organs which both created the son and were responsible for his death. The trip to Eden was about exorcising the evil which She had incorporated into her being during her studies ("masculine" knowledge attained from outside). While She came to believe that women were inherently evil, He was repulsed by this idea. While this film, in general, defies attempts to analyze it, here are a few (hopefully not too jumbled) thoughts which are a composite from reading many analyses of this film, a film rich in incoherent and possibly unintended(!) religious symbolism: