Into the most innocent, comes...evil - yes? No? It's a simple question posed in this short from Poland.
The 'Antichrist' is a metaphorical story that starts with 4 Polish boys playing in a pit mine. The oldest of the 4 is named Szafran. He asks his 'followers' - the 3 younger boys - to do acts that are ever more violent - to each other, to animals...to him. At first, they laugh, but after the first act causes them injuries - but none to him (because he's says he's the Antichrist) - they begin to follow him more; killing fish, drinking blood - burying the 'Antichrist'(he tells them by doing that, and smearing mud on his face he will get ever stronger) and stomping on him.
Szafran occasionally speaks in a guttural voice - lines of scripture, explaining who he is (Satan) and what he will wrought. Is it it really Szafran, just playing, or, is the voice belong to some other...'force'?
The young boys do - and laugh it's a game, after all...?
But when they 'bury' the Antichrist, and say; 'free yourself, Antichrist,'the pile just gets the already buried Szafran more & more trapped.
Does Szafran become unburied, or not? I'm not saying. It's a short that, in a sense all people can relate to, for as children we've all played games, that we thought were 'simple fun,' but - is it possible, that what we think of as fun and games aren't? Can the young (or anyone) be misled so easily?
There were times I had to look away - from the 'games' - and you have to wonder to yourself; nature/nurture. Is darkness inherent - even in the young, or, is it come from outside - and, if it does come from outside, then darkness can even be in those we BELIEVE to be most precious, and innocent.
THAT's the ...'huh' (as the other reviewer who doesn't really 'get' this said) of this film.
The 'Antichrist' is a metaphorical story that starts with 4 Polish boys playing in a pit mine. The oldest of the 4 is named Szafran. He asks his 'followers' - the 3 younger boys - to do acts that are ever more violent - to each other, to animals...to him. At first, they laugh, but after the first act causes them injuries - but none to him (because he's says he's the Antichrist) - they begin to follow him more; killing fish, drinking blood - burying the 'Antichrist'(he tells them by doing that, and smearing mud on his face he will get ever stronger) and stomping on him.
Szafran occasionally speaks in a guttural voice - lines of scripture, explaining who he is (Satan) and what he will wrought. Is it it really Szafran, just playing, or, is the voice belong to some other...'force'?
The young boys do - and laugh it's a game, after all...?
But when they 'bury' the Antichrist, and say; 'free yourself, Antichrist,'the pile just gets the already buried Szafran more & more trapped.
Does Szafran become unburied, or not? I'm not saying. It's a short that, in a sense all people can relate to, for as children we've all played games, that we thought were 'simple fun,' but - is it possible, that what we think of as fun and games aren't? Can the young (or anyone) be misled so easily?
There were times I had to look away - from the 'games' - and you have to wonder to yourself; nature/nurture. Is darkness inherent - even in the young, or, is it come from outside - and, if it does come from outside, then darkness can even be in those we BELIEVE to be most precious, and innocent.
THAT's the ...'huh' (as the other reviewer who doesn't really 'get' this said) of this film.