“Speak. You can’t speak. There’s nothing you can say. There’s only silence. But I love silence. I love loneliness.”
The fear of getting close to someone because of a disquieted trepidation of hurting them or losing them. And how others interpret, react, and treat those anxieties that aren’t their own.
Irena is tempted consciously and unconsciously to do harm to others and those she cares about. She resists these feelings by distancing and secluding herself. It’s what we do when…
“My soul is humble when I see the way little ones accept their lot. Lord save little children. The wind blows and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.”
The most evil force in the world that is equal parts God, the devil, and human vs the innocence and resilience of youth. A blight upon the world that’s forever stalking them. A wounded guardian angel finds them in their time of need, making up past mistakes.
Some of the best…
Images of ruin, disaster, pain, and a new world of occult worship. Through this chaos, blaspheming is the norm. Life becomes death and death becomes life. Maybe it’s what we deserve? All in the name of Lucifer.
A short film that more than deserves a rating and a review. Poetry in motion and on screen. Phenomenally edited with a continuously surprising soundscape of a soundtrack. So so striking visually. Eye melting. If this was feature length it would kill me.
“A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.”
I loved that this didn’t immediately start out as or become a reactionary think piece on pagan folk horror. If anything, the film has such disdain and hatred of reactionary Christianity and it shows through our presumptuous and blundering copper. Having watched this after seeing Midsommar, it was essentially cosplaying as this film. Nothing in Midsommar comes close to the strange and surreal nature of the village here and the…
