MIND & BODY Pt 28: Antichrist (2009) & The House That Jack Built (2018)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The The In the mid-1980s a Danish art house director burst onto the film festival circuit. |
| 0:37.7 | His name was Lars von Tria. |
| 0:40.6 | His breakthrough film, The Element of Crime, received several awards at various international |
| 0:45.7 | film festivals, including the Technical Grand Prize at Cannes. |
| 0:50.3 | Across the next 30 years, Lars von Trier gained a reputation for making provocative, challenging films that polarized critics. |
| 0:59.5 | His films often dealt with mental health, abuse, mercy, sacrifice, and existentialism. |
| 1:07.0 | But over time, Lars von Tria himself became a figure that was as controversial and divisive as his films. |
| 1:15.0 | The man with the reputation as a trickster, a mischief maker, |
| 1:19.0 | one who likes to shock and push people's buttons. |
| 1:22.0 | The man who famously made a bad taste joke at can and got himself banned from the festival, |
| 1:28.0 | and a man repeatedly accused of being a misogynist, one who's had accusations of abuse made towards him by one of his lead actresses. |
| 1:37.0 | Interestingly, two of his most personal films, one from 2009 and another from 2018, are the Vontria |
| 1:47.1 | films that dabble most in the horror genre. Both films play out like visceral, gruesome and terrifying self-examinations. |
| 1:56.0 | Both films appear to be Lars von Tria taking a good look at himself and seeing the darkness within. |
| 2:04.0 | I should come here. |
| 2:07.0 | Get out! A! |
| 2:08.0 | A! |
| 2:10.0 | A! |
| 2:11.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the mind and body and we discuss the house that |
| 2:18.3 | Jack built and anti-Christ. Antichrist. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 2:24.0 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you |
| 2:36.7 | tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and |
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