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What a complete waste of my life seeing that piece of shit fucking movie. What the fuck were they thinking.

The film did not have a single redeeming quality. Boring ass, shit ass, bullshit film. My only regret was not sleeping through more of it.

Also WHY DO AMERICANS USE FAKE BRITISH ACCENTS WHENEVER A MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN USA? WHHYY? FUCKING WHYYY. THE MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ROMANIA YOU IDIOTS WHY ARE YOU PRETENDING TO BE BRITISH FOR NO GOD DAMNED REASON agony-consuming

Edit: Germany? Fuck whatever, some country which notably does not have a British accent.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (11 children)

It's so bad! You can't see a thing, there's a magic exposition man, everyone constantly talks for no reason and the message appears to be that women having sexual desires causes the plague. Like, Werner Herzog did this movie already and Eggers instead decided to crib most of the changes for his version from Francis Ford Coppola (and from The Exorcist, the scariest movie of all time (!)). I should have realized after watching The VVitch that he's just another middlebrow director with weird gender hang-ups that get lauded for being incomprehensible. Also, what kind of filmmaker is unable to make a movie set in the current day? Seriously now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (10 children)

the message appears to be that women having sexual desires causes the plague.

Genuinely how on earth do you misinterpret the themes of a film so poorly lmao. Especially one thats so overtly on the nose about it. Ellen's sexuality being repressed by her society is what forces her to connect to Orlok, its his embodiment of male sexual domination that causes the plague and the other male characters trying to control her that worsens her episodes. Only when von Franz tells the other guys to fuck off and let her do her thing do they start getting anywhere, and in the end

spoilerits her accepting her sexuality and autonomy that lets her kill Orlok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Genuinely how on earth do you misinterpret the themes of a film so poorly lmao.

I don't appreciate that tone. Her accepting her sexuality ends in her having sex with what you call the "embodiment of male sexual domination" and then they both die. How does that make sense? It seems like everyone save the men loses out from her accepting her sexuality. And I don't think it's very coherent how the movie shows that sexual desire cannot be controlled – except via marriage – because that has murderous consequences, which can, however, also be resolved through sexual desire. I just don't feel like the metaphors here work together and that is what I meant by "incomprehensible".

To put it more clearly: In the Eggers films I've seen, every woman either ends up dead or part of a childremoved cult and I don't think women who suffer are automatically a sign of feminist politics.

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