The REAL Horror of Nosferatu

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• MP

  @MP-db9sw · 1 year ago (edited)

  I think it's interesting that the evil wasn't summoned out of greed or lust or wrath but loneliness. This is true for modern people, many turn to evil out of a deep seated sense of loneliness, isolation, and despair.

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• AI

  @aidancohen6244 · 1 year ago

  I was fascinated by the depiction of the parallel theming seen in Ellen and Friedrich. Ellen is in a truly vulnerable, unfathomably lonely state when she makes her covenant with Orlok. She ignores the fact that he is this thing; a supernatural, ominous, decayed figure. Yet, considering their deep psychic connection and her susceptibility, she allows herself to be bewitched and bound to him. Later, Friedrich is shown in the mausoleum, falling apart with black plague and grief, mourning the death of his wife and daughters. His anguish, loneliness and despair is so powerful, he exhumes his wife’s corpse from her tomb and “necrophilizes” her (not a real word, I know). Reflecting Ellen, the desperation to cure loneliness is so powerful, intimate relations with a corpse becomes plausible from their inebriated perspectives. On an unrelated note, Friedrich is later seen lying dead on top of his wife’s corpse, choosing to die with the one he loves. Similarly, Orlok, with the sun rising, chooses to die with the one he loves.

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• JU

  @juniorbor5888 · 1 year ago

  Talking about religious symbolism, not sure how many people have noticed it, at the end when Willem Defoe character picks up the cat and looks through the window you’ll see, or at least to me, a shadow on his cheek forming a cross… Beautiful!

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• KA

  @kashlynrae8032 · 1 year ago

  "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist"

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• GA

  @gallil3818 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLt6BYwYY4&amp;t=260">4:20</a> I loved the observation that Knock acts as a depraved John the Baptist, in keeping with the theme , Thomas acts like a naive Judas, giving over someone he loves for a bag of coins

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• PI

  @PinkSkates · 1 year ago

  It’s actually the sun that destroys Nosferatu. She baits him into exposing himself to the sun.

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• NS

  @nseven1117 · 1 year ago (edited)

  considering the fact that Orlok is based off of Dracula, this story seems to also point (though most likely unintentional) towards the image of the Maiden and the Dragon (Dracula means &quot;little dragon&quot; or &quot;son of the dragon&quot;). like in Revelation where Mary and the dragon are in conflict with one another which ends with the dragon ultimately being defeated by the birth of the the Maiden&apos;s son (this movie is set and released during the Christmas Season).

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• CY

  @cybersean3000 · 1 year ago

  Excellent analysis! &nbsp;Yours is the only one addressing the spiritual themes of the movie.

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• AN

  @Anthony-pz7tl · 1 year ago

  The line about being blinded by the enlightenment instantly struck me. Stayed with me days after the film - glad to see an insightful commentary pick up on it too. Great video!

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• AZ

  @AzouraLazuli · 1 year ago

  I’ve never heard anyone draw parallels between Jesus and vampires but that’s a very interesting reflection and definitely strikes me as true. Excellent work!

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• RE

  @rentarockidz9056 · 1 year ago

  Watched the film 2 days ago and I&apos;ve been watching several reviews of the film and yours is the first one that mention all the &quot;moral&quot; you could say, messages that I noticed the story was sending trough its script and the images. Great review.

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• DE

  @DeeziusNutley · 1 year ago

  Damn this is the best review I’ve come across about this movie, truly striking parallels between good &amp; evil.

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