Must We Burn Lars von Trier?: Simone de Beauvoir's Body Politics in Antichrist
2015; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2572-6633
Autores Tópico(s)Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence
ResumoImages of sexual violence, bodies in pain, and its suffering heroine have made Antichrist an especially difficult film for feminists. Yet while feminists have been rightly reluctant to embrace von Trier, we need not burn him either. Inspired by The Second Sex and Beauvoir’s 1952 essay on the Marquis de Sade, “Must We Burn Sade?” I argue that Antichrist encourages spectators to feel our way towards a new politics through the extreme bodily experiences of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s character. A grotesque mother, SHE embodies and acknowledges the existence of “foreign realities” in Eden and shatters the deadening taxonomies of patriarchy.
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