"I understand that everything beautiful is perhaps hideous," she says. Chapter two (Pain): He directs her in therapeutic exercises. At this stage, Mother and Child, Nature and Woman, aren't yet at war. He sees a deer whose stillborn fawn is still partly contained in its womb. The duo travel to Eden (the Biblical cradle of mankind) and hike through the woods. She says she associates fear with Eden, a cabin in the woods where she spent the previous summer trying to finish her dissertation on "Gynocide" (the killing of women). His theory is that she must "re-live her deepest fears". He takes over her treatment, believing that He can cure her with the miracles of Science. Chapter one (Grief): She collapses at her child's funeral and is hospitalised. Note: He is played by Willem Dafoe, who famously portrayed Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ". Similarly, the wife is a researcher into the history of witchcraft and is known simply as She. In the film, the husband is a therapist and is known simply as He. Prologue: Whilst a husband and wife have sex at home, their toddler climbs out a window and falls to his death. Lars Von Trier directs "AntiChrist", a film comprised of six clear segments.
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