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ANTICHRIST 2
Sight Unseen Antichrist 2 - Queen Mob's Tea House
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8TH JAN 2015 IN MISC
BY QUEEN MOB
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Antichrist 2
Antichrist 2 is Antichrist in reverse, Antichrist upside down, Antichrist inside out. There
are no actors left acting by the end of it, only the opening line in refrain: How are you?
How are you? How are you? And that was yesterday, and didn’t we just talk about that?
I’ve been watching this film so long I’ve watched the entire world go over the balcony.
I’m full of grief for all the kids I see dying. Antichrist 2 is medicated into a coma of a film
about how it was never made. It’s smarter than itself by two whole weeks. Has ten times
as many doctors all less experienced than each other. I feel somehow culpable for all the
young boys that died in the making of this film. Antichrist 2 feels like it’s my fault.
Everything is atypical about a film I wake early to walk off balconies to avoid finishing. I
could have stopped myself in my sleep if I hadn’t woke up confused about how a film
like this ever got funded and made. Grief leads everywhere. I do not tell my family that
Antichrist 2 has no way around it. The love it takes will go on and on. And it will get
worse because it’s the best it can be. The summer is a long way off to still be watching
this film. But I’m its patient now so I won’t know if talking makes me alive or dead. And
the film makes me talk about these things more than I should. Antichrist 2 makes you
hold your breath until you renounce Antichrist or forget it entirely. When you exhale
you must imagine you are pushing mourning back into the film. Anxiety is the threat of
itself. Only the lifetime it takes to watch it is dangerous. Every lead actor is just a
sequence of dizzy spells. My eyes have a dry throat. Antichrist 2 has more sounds than
any one person can hear. I’m heavy breathing in case there will be less air here soon. I
remember never to worship a film that cannot defend itself. That everyone but
Antichrist 2 is starving or being tortured or murdered is no distraction. Antichrist 2 is
what I’m doing. My exposure time is closing in on the fear of thought itself. Thinking is
just making more than one film about the same thing. What scares me most is that
none of this is about anything. Fear is always nowhere before it’s somewhere. What is
supposed to happen happens somewhere else. This time round, the woods is nobody in
particular. Eden is the hair on the back of your hands. Never being able to close your
eyes is how the film watches you. But it’s okay because by the time this happens the
film has been running for too many years. It’s a nice feeling to still be breathing as if
you’re asleep. It’s always evening and the deer are always giving birth to something. The
foxholes, which are everywhere this time, are just the reflections of your face in the
screen looking for itself. Everything rots much quicker. The grass outside the cabin has
become a duvet of things obviously dead yet indiscriminate. Nothing green in Antichrist
remains green in Antichrist 2. Nobody can melt into any of the colours you will see.
Nothing will be hot enough to burn you unless you want it to. It hurts to watch this film
all the way through because you won’t be able to remember when you started watching
it. And to say it will one day finish is only the expectation that it must. You have to
really feel that a sequel is possible. I’ve never known a film remove my legs like this. It’s
just not plausible to walk and breathe this indefinitely. And counting is no longer any
kind of antidote. The film cannot vouch for what it wants you to learn. It unwants what
it is every second it runs. Antichrist 2 can hear its own screams. Adrenaline is pushed
round in a circle until you know you should never watch something you know is unreal.
Antichrist 2 will stop you believing in anything older than itself. Bits of what is
represented as nature drop off and die. You will be encouraged to find them beautiful.
Everything that cries is too realistic. Its reality will distort who you are if you are not
Satan or Jesus. Sleep and love are the same thing and Antichrist 2 is never both at once.
Nobody will acknowledge that dreams might exist. If you squint you will see the film less
clearly. Order profanes. Reason becomes my second nature. I discover hurt as something
I understood before I knew what it was. To watch Antichrist 2 is to realize you’ve been
frightened since birth. Nothing human can watch a film this long. Not even a woman,
when womanhood is the evil done to women. A film like Antichrist 2 has written itself.
There is no film in existence like this. So female it dies in its sleep. So female its evil is
owned by someone else. Ha, forget what I said, this film hasn’t stopped hitting me for a
week. Everyone who watches it asks to be beaten for at least twice as long. This is how we
know the film loves us. And if it never ends it will still be necessary to watch it again.
The weather is up to you, but not how many women it kills. Obsessions are evil and
Antichrist 2 replaces them with itself. And I allow myself to be hypnotized into
reenacting a map of children lying dead in snow. No film should result in the amount of
deformities I now have. There is a whole other film in all the details I’ve so far failed to
notice. I don’t believe I’ll ever move on from this. I don’t believe in anything this film has
not first fucked and sired children from. Where are you? Get on with it! I’m waiting on
part 3. I’ll watch it when I’m dead. Watch me, I’m crying till I get it. Antichrist 2 is
Antichrist 3 and false in every way. If you ever find it, hold onto it until it stops
breathing. There is no such film. And every frame of it is blessed.
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