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Silver Linings Playbook 2012
As a manic depressive slut this film resonated with me deeply.
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Nosferatu 2024
Eggers films are hard to love from the first watch - they're universally unsettling, particularly in the final scene. It's as if he doesn't want the audience to immediately love his films.
That's certainly true for Nosferatu, a faithful re-telling of the Dracula narrative and the Nosferatu script that explores an alternative narrative of the relationship between the heroine and the monster. In Dracula, the women of the story exist only as victims to be saved by their men; in…
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Nosferatu 1922
This is a movie about a pandemic - specifically, the Spanish Flu of 1918.
Yes, it is a rip off of Dracula.
Yes, it is full of references that evoke fear of The Other, whether that other be gay, Jewish, or an immigrant.
Various reviewers link this fear of Other with the plague scenes, but I think that argument holds up less well post-COVID. The plague scenes weren't anachronistic to me - it touched on a shared trauma, one shared…
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