

I dunno guys, but I watched this movie with a friend and it’s just the best feeling I’ve felt in a long time. I wish I could recommend it to other people, but you have to be pretty screwed up in your head already to love a movie like this. It’s absolutely pitchblack. It’s directed by the same guy who did The Witch, so you know what to expect. I don’t know what the director, Robert Eggers, did to be blessed with the ability to make movies like this. This movie is just going to hit a little too close to home for most people, because its messages about our world and human nature are kind of painful for people not prepared for them.
Now I have to be honest, the main starring actress, the daughter of Johnny Depp, reminds me of a woman I loved dearly. It is a movie about a woman with a beautiful soul, the most beautiful soul in the world. She was born in the wrong era for her to be truly happy. And she is forced to choose, who she loves. Does she love the civilized man who offers her a house, the promise of children, a respectable place in society? Or does she love the monstrous one, who promises to bring an end to her pain?
It’s a story that has been told many times before. All the big stories in life have been told many times before in different ways. But Nosferatu is interesting precisely because it is a particular variant of the story, inspired by esoteric insights. The first Nosferatu movie from 1922 was made by a member of a German Saturnalian esoteric order.
But I would say, if you are like me, if you look around at our world and recognize what happened to it and suffer under it, then watch this movie.
And after you have watched it, look at your own pale ghostly complexion.
You know what the others think when they look at us.
It gets very dark here at times, but it serves a purpose.
I want you to remember how blessed we truly are.
I love all his movies, can’t wait to see it. Some people are absolutely slagging it though.
It’s amazing, a visual masterwork, but it’s his bleakest yet. Not his fault though, the original is bleak too.
Beautiful film. Was good enough I started to take notes.
I liked how they contrasted the calm and sterile cities with the harshness of nature depending on the tone and context of every scene. I also like how tension was built up through the film as the worlds of the mundane and the supernatural begin to merge together from the perspective of the film’s protagonists.
Noticed many visual tropes that my favorite game Bloodborne also uses, for example, the supernatural dread of the riderless carriage leading to the vampiric castle.
https://youtu.be/Ly2QjPVH0Yg
Also plays with memory, dreams, predetermination, and the supernatural ways nature can manifest in a very similar manner to Attack on Titan which I also appreciate. The ending is also surprisingly similar.
BLESS US WITH BLOOD! OHHHHHH!!! BLESS US WITH BLOOD! BLOOD SMEARED EVERYWHERE, BATHING IN ITS WARMTH!!! BLOOD OF THE COMMONS AND BLOOD OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE! SKELETONS DANCING IN PALE MOONLIGHT THROUGH LOOPING RINGS OF SILVER! BLESS US WITH BLOOD!
Very disturbing in some moments but quite enjoyable! 9/10 no Mikasa so it isn’t perfect.
I read this last week and I thought of you, and now you wrote this piece!
Rod Reher is a convert to Orthodoxy. I have a few minor objections (all converts bring some ‘baggages’ which is normal), but it’s interesting.
(Obviously, I agree that the Church saves)
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/nosferatu-sex-death-bloodsucking
I prefer the next piece about Dostoevsky.
(Besides, movies, myths etc can shape your mind, and not always for the best)
Also, I strongly disagree with how they praise Classic cultures (like the Grecoroman). It’s kind of them but it’s also ignorance. There was a lot of darkness there.
Don’t let that darkness shape your minds…
(I regret posting the above link. I wouldn’t mind if you removed it. Actually, please do. Lots of darkness, which is probably us that create it)