They are even more aghast at its unsimulated, nigh on pornographic scenes of uninhibited passion in which Dafoe and his co-star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, couple with feverish abandon before indulging in a frenzy of genital self-mutilation, mutual masturbation and an eye-watering quasi torture sequence. For those of you whose interests lean towards the prurient, I suggest you read a no-holds-barred description of the film on the internet. For those of a more delicate disposition, the following will suffice.
Dafoe and Gainsbourg – a psychiatrist and his wife – are grieving over the death of their only son who, in an artfully shot opening scene, falls from a window while they are engaged in the film’s first of many unflinching sex scenes. Gainsbourg suffers a breakdown. Dafoe rails at her therapy and medication and insists upon treating her himself. She protests that he is too close. Arrogant and overbearing, Dafoe insists.
They retreat to their secluded cabin. What ensues is a moving and thought-provoking journey through the dark and gritty themes of grief and guilt. There are moments of extreme tenderness interspersed with unfathomable fantasy: others of wanton sexual abandon that border on, then invade, the boundaries of what most would consider decency. Mediawatch-UK has denounced it as ‘shocking’ and critics denounced it as ‘an abomination’ and ‘sadistically violent’. "
WOW! After reading this article I can fully understand why they entitled this film Antichrist. It totally and undeniably made in the spirit of the antichrist. It opposes all that is of God and the teachings Jesus Christ which are found in the holy word of God. It shows the depth of the depravity of the human heart on many levels on and off camera. First off William Dafoe is a married man which means that he is committing adultery. Secondly his wife doesn't mind and even has watched while some of the sex scenes while they were being made, and she even made dinner for them all sometimes after the crew was done filming for the day. Thirdly, apparently some people have given this movie rave reviews as if genital mutilation and gross immorality are something to be raved about. Lastly the title itself is a direct affront to the Lord Himself. It shakes a defiant fist at God and unabashedly challenges His authority from the very moment the idea for this movie was conceived in the corrupt mind that it originated from. Everything about this movie promotes unholiness,ungodliness, unrighteousness and all things that are called good.
