There are certainly elements of being a movie here, but it's a close call. Von Trier sets the tone real quick by giving us a close up of Willem Dafoe's dick penetrating Charlotte Gainsbourg seven seconds in. From there, things get so much worse. To its credit, there is some great cinematography and there are some interesting ideas here depending on how much you want to analyze the film. There are scenes and images that are etched into my brain and I'll remember for years (although some I wish I could forget) whether for their dark beauty or disturbing gross-out/shock value. Antichrist is constantly vacillating between mind-numbingly dull or pretentious scenes and shocking ones that literally had me sitting there with my mouth hanging open. I am not opposed to shock value and even unreasonable levels of gore, but these scenes were really the only times I was totally interested. Most of the time, I was confused or annoyed. Antichrist manages to be incredibly dark, yet pretty cheesy at times and it's the worst combination. If we look at the plot isolated from everything else, it's an interesting story that I would love to see, but Von Trier is a nut and tells it in the most obtuse and overworked way. I know that "pretentious" is the big no-no word and I'm showing my normie badge here a little, but Antichrist is really pretentious. I don't mind that the movie is incredibly dark and symbolic, but it's to the point where it's not really clicking as a film. Obviously there is an audience for this movie, but it's just not working for me