Chaos reigns.
A woman and man are having sex, meanwhile their young son falls from the window to his death. The woman can't get over her grief and the couple retreat to their cabin where he trys to help her (he's a psychiatrist) but she becomes more unstable.
Lars Von Trier wants to make this about men and woman naming his characters She & He. The couple are adam and eve returning to eden which is no longer a haven, nature is now completely separate from the world of humans and the tree of knowledge is bare and dead.
This film looks great - scenes of their sons death, images of a churning forest and especially haunting are the animals Willem encounters. Actually I'm more disturbed/surprised by those animals than anything Charlotte does and she does some full on shit like snip off her own clitoris.
I enjoyed this because it's confronting and unusual, definitely horrifying but thought provoking as well and that's why it's art not Hostel.
YES - maybe Lars is a scientologist
