Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Do we overcome evil by engaging with it?
The film presents a worldview in the last act that is inconsistent with true conquest over evil.
The film claims that battling dark desire (the Count) head on, and eventually defeating it (tricking it) by using it against itself, is a pragmatic and efficacious strategy for overcoming darker nature. However this idealized perspective does not match the reality it is speaking to. To face your own inner darkness and attempt to battle it…