the thing about this film is that it's so very ambiguous, at least to me. so many questions fill my mind.
is Ellen a victim of her own desires, or is she a victim of Nosferatu himself? is the plague a metaphor for Ellen's shame regarding the needs of the flesh, which can only be relieved momentarily by succumbing to them, or is it a tool for Orlok to coerce the young woman by threatening to kill her loved ones?…