Shot in sumptuous black and white, slow motion images only help to convey the sense of inevitable as the parents make (graphic, full-frontal) love, their son edges closer to the open window as the white snow flakes gently drift downward, a foreshadowing of the deep dive both parents will endure.
The opening scene of Antichrist is as beautiful as it is painful. There is no nice way of padding this: they should have watching the kid but no, they were making the beast with two backs, as it were. Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg's characters have to suffer the death of their toddler and if that wasn't bad enough, they are wholly responsible for the tragedy.
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