Tomorrow night (May 22. 2024) on Episode 69 of Spellbreakers. Among other things we discuss this movie from 2011. The mother ata the wedding opposite of the Divine Feminine. She is the witch from Sleeping Beauty (whose heroine is Aurora in some versions). She knows only how to poison youth, to fill the void in her soul. She is willing to destroy the Earth to satisfy her pain. This is what makes Lars Van Trier's films so exquisite. Probably the best movie I saw during my two-year nomadic cinema obsession was Antichrist, which came out in 2009, and is considered the first of a trilogy that includes this film below. I thought Antichrist was brilliant, but I wanted to unsee it. I'm not exaggerating. Afterwards I wished I hadn't seen it. But that is what it takes to make art these days, in the age of denial of the reality that stares us in our face, and truth that we know to be truth, but which we mock as ridiculous, lest we be seen as a weirdo.
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The keys to the movie above: Lars Van Trier, a Dane, made a sci-fi adaptation of Hamlet, in which the central character is Ophelia, played by Kirsten Dunst.
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