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Why an allegory?

posted 15 years ago by saladin-10
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I've just seen this movie for the first time...

Wow...

Beautiful, dark, bizarre and haunting.

But when I read the posts of the main metaphor of the movie (symbolic marriage breakup) I couldn't help but think - why not take it seriously?

The movie is ambiguous, yes - but why can't the possesions, monsters and murders be real?

Why can't it be about a demon (the Antichrist, if You will) being born and nurtured to bring an end to humanity?

Most of the movies alegories are about god (or his absence) then of the metaphorical marriage. Maybe the "only good in the world is mirrored from darkness" - maybe the only god is the devil?

Personal tragedy is good - but a doomsday scenario is better (if Your looking for a horror movie).

[–] combatreview 15 years ago

Well, I think if any allegory or whatever is good enough it works on the superficial level too. The emotional realism of this film comes through very strongly, but I also enjoy it as a peculiar antichrist movie about a naked lady being screamingly ravaged by a tentacled slobbery monster. And of it's kind it's quite likely the best.