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The film heavily wrestles with historical and religious misogyny. "She" is writing a thesis on the historical persecution of women and witches ("gynocide"). As her mind unravels, she begins to believe the very texts she researched—concluding that women possess an inherently evil, destructive nature that dates back to the Garden of Eden. Technical Craft and Visual Style movie antichrist 2009
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