sound design for orlock's feeding: -1000/10 listening experience, elicited such a visceral near-gagging revulsion in me that confirmed all suspicions that i could have never survived a theatrical watch w/o warning, i will never be a real horror enthusiast, etc etc.
i haven't seen robert eggers' other work and only watched the nosferatu silent film very recently, but i'm not particularly moved by his stylistic choices or attempts of homage-- maybe my opinion will change when i watch herzog and…
midnight screening synced to radiohead! v silly and would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that discussion-- the colored accent filters were distracting imho. am struck by how vampirism takes on a sickly form in this adaption (made for iconic spindly silhouettes and shadow casting effects; the set design is a standout), and nosferatu is repeatedly invoked as vermin/mosquito/rat. social contagion aesthetics in interwar germany etc etc-- much 2 consider. ty laura and other friends on my phone who told me to go watch this on the big screens instead of holing up in my apartment. :-)
such a cynical and derivative portrayal of immigrant life in both seoul and nyc, premised upon hae sung as a static stand-in for a genericized 'korea' that nora ultimately must leave to pursue her success fantasy in the us. it's didatic and utterly unconvincing-- that nora has literary pretenses apparently 'too big' for seoul, yet the film is indifferent to enfleshing what it is even abt new york city that animates her writing beyond some tourist-y train montages and an…
