Antichrist is the 2009 film by Lars Von Trier. The movie is a disturbing and violent masterpiece that is beautifully shot and excellently executed. It received many awards at the Cannes festival but caused a lot of controversy due to its extremely violent and graphically sexual nature. The story is based solely on two characters, a man and his wife, whose child has recently died. The wife suffers extreme depression and grief and her therapist husband decides to enrol her as his patient. The couple retreat to the depths of the wife’s fear, Eden forest. Here, nature becomes evil and manifests itself on the couple and their sanity. They begin to loose grip of their mental stability and horror emits.
The key is in the strong visuals, which make the unspoken more powerful and provocative than words and action alone. I took particular interest into this film due to its brilliant postproduction techniques, more precisely its use of slow motion, which was shot with a Phantom V4 in 1,000 frames per second. The result was a hauntingly still visual where the only movement was that of the female actress whose walking was slowed down, making it appear ghostly and supernatural. Obviously its going to be impossible to get hold of the particular high end camera to shoot similar slow motioned scenes, but I really want to consider this effect and finish for our own film. Above is the main section of the film where the slow motion technique is most effective and important. However, these type of sequences are played constantly throughout the entire reel, so I have uploaded the film's official trailer which captures more of these scenes, just not to the lengthy extent of the previous clip posted.
The key is in the strong visuals, which make the unspoken more powerful and provocative than words and action alone. I took particular interest into this film due to its brilliant postproduction techniques, more precisely its use of slow motion, which was shot with a Phantom V4 in 1,000 frames per second. The result was a hauntingly still visual where the only movement was that of the female actress whose walking was slowed down, making it appear ghostly and supernatural. Obviously its going to be impossible to get hold of the particular high end camera to shoot similar slow motioned scenes, but I really want to consider this effect and finish for our own film. Above is the main section of the film where the slow motion technique is most effective and important. However, these type of sequences are played constantly throughout the entire reel, so I have uploaded the film's official trailer which captures more of these scenes, just not to the lengthy extent of the previous clip posted.
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