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Thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, but remember that The Objection The Maenads raised is that Orpheus shunned Female-kind after Eurydice's death, by bringing pedophilia to The Greek World, only enjoying the embraces of young boys. If we want to use this Orpheus symbol, we must investigate if the couple's child was being abused by both spouses, and not just the crazed mother. First: "Three times the sun had ended the year, in watery Pisces, and Orpheus had abstained from the love of women, either because things ended badly for him, or because he had sworn to do so. Yet, many felt a desire to be joined with the poet, and many grieved at rejection. Indeed, *he was the first of the Thracian people to transfer his love to young boys, and enjoy their brief springtime, and early flowering, this side of manhood."* Then, later on: "While the poet of Thrace, with songs like these, drew to himself the trees, the souls of wild beasts, and the stones that followed him, see, how the frenzied Ciconian women, their breasts covered with animal skins, spy Orpheus from a hilltop, as he matches songs to the sounding strings. One of them, her hair scattered to the light breeze, called: *‘Behold, behold, this is the one who scorns us!’* and hurled her spear at the face of Apollo’s poet, as he was singing. Tipped with leaves, it marked him, without wounding. The next missile was a stone, that, thrown through the air, was itself overpowered by the harmony of voice and lyre, and fell at his feet, as though it were begging forgiveness for its mad audacity. But in fact the mindless attack mounted, without restraint, and mad fury ruled. All their missiles would have been frustrated by his song, but the huge clamour of the Berecyntian flutes of broken horn, the drums, and the breast-beating and howls of the Bacchantes, drowned the sound of the lyre. Then, finally, the stones grew red, with the blood of the poet, to whom they were deaf." --Ovid

lol

I think your version is the best explanation.

This isn't the Hunger Games

thepromman I believe AtomicLemonade was referencing Into the Woods.

I majored in psychology and one of the first lessons is to never, ever treat your loved ones. I knew that and still did it, my fiancee had borderline personality disorder and tried to kill me several times, so goddamn stupid of me.

@@andreafomasidirector The usual: it's gay, but now with surgical masks.

That’s what I think too

Very self indulgent, but at the same time disturbing and beautifully shot. Charlotte Gainsbourg was fantastic

art films man. did you honestly expect any better?

+Don Draper Another interpretation is those women represent or better said are the souls of all those women who were killed or executed due religious reasons. Still I consider this scene as an open interpretation.

stick to transformers, kiddo.

The movie deals with themes of male fear and anxiety regarding love, marriage, and reproduction. The wife tortured their son throughout his short life, either murdered him or at least let him die via autodefenestration whilst she watched, and allusions to castration and clitorectomy, signifying the death of erotic pleasure in marriage, and simultaneously the death of a once-young man's ambitions due to marriage, were present throughout. Though in the end Dafoe's character manages to outwit and defeat his wife before she could murder him, he is run down by a herd of faceless women as he escapes on his maimed leg. This seems to signify that his enemy was not his wife as an individual, but the entire female sex, which acts as a destructive, almost impersonal force of nature. A great film to watch back-to-back with Antichrist is David Lynch's seminal classic Eraserhead. Very similar themes at work in both.

this was very informative, thank you. i was looking for some explanation of the symbolism.

Jesus i haven't heard of that one

For me, there were two weeks, but I got the point

Probably isolation.

The way I see it, it's to represent all womankind who has been vilified over the centuries. By becoming "faceless" and indistinguishable, they all become one.

Loool

Did you even watch the movie? She says it herself: "Nature is Satan's church," and she is writing a book about how women became witches or maidens of the devil.