What a complete waste of my life seeing that piece of shit fucking movie. What the fuck were they thinking.
The film did not have a single redeeming quality. Boring ass, shit ass, bullshit film. My only regret was not sleeping through more of it.
Also WHY DO AMERICANS USE FAKE BRITISH ACCENTS WHENEVER A MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN USA? WHHYY? FUCKING WHYYY. THE MOVIE TAKES PLACE IN ROMANIA YOU IDIOTS WHY ARE YOU PRETENDING TO BE BRITISH FOR NO GOD DAMNED REASON 
Edit: Germany? Fuck whatever, some country which notably does not have a British accent.
It’s so bad! You can’t see a thing, there’s a magic exposition man, everyone constantly talks for no reason and the message appears to be that women having sexual desires causes the plague. Like, Werner Herzog did this movie already and Eggers instead decided to crib most of the changes for his version from Francis Ford Coppola (and from The Exorcist, the scariest movie of all time (!)). I should have realized after watching The VVitch that he’s just another middlebrow director with weird gender hang-ups that get lauded for being incomprehensible. Also, what kind of filmmaker is unable to make a movie set in the current day? Seriously now.
Genuinely how on earth do you misinterpret the themes of a film so poorly lmao. Especially one thats so overtly on the nose about it. Ellen’s sexuality being repressed by her society is what forces her to connect to Orlok, its his embodiment of male sexual domination that causes the plague and the other male characters trying to control her that worsens her episodes. Only when von Franz tells the other guys to fuck off and let her do her thing do they start getting anywhere, and in the end
spoiler
its her accepting her sexuality and autonomy that lets her kill Orlok.
Also all of eggars movies (aside from the lighthouse obviously) are fairly straight forward. What exactly is incomprehensible about the VVitch?
It genuinely tries to explore an alien subjectivity, that of a 17th century or whatever puritan who was so extreme he got his family exiled from his own puritan community. What freaks him out, what is his horror story. It’s incomprehensible insofar as it’s foreign to our understanding in both language and mindset.
Yes but thats whats so good about the VVitch. Is weird but its not incomprehensible (aside from the accents sure). Its a straightforward story about a puritan family bedeviled by a witch, it just gives us a look at Puritan culture with depth beyond simple aesthetics and plays with the themes of both horror from the outside (the witch, the devil) and horror from within (patriarchy, repressed sexuality, etc.). Its fairly accessible without being hand holdy I guess is what Im trying to get at.
The dialog is a bit confusing at times
Ok yeah the commitment to period accurate accents are pretty hard in his other films, but then people are complaining about easy to understand English accents in Nosferatu so you cant really win with that one. And outside of that the VVitch especially is a very easy movie to comprehend: Puritan settler family is plagued by a witch and the devil (but the real evil was puritanism and patriarchy the whole time)
The VVitch WAS going to have period accurate accents but had to compromise to half way into the past is always English accents cause the child actors had too much trouble with early modern English speech.
This is period accurate
Atun-Shei referenced
I’m a big fan
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I don’t appreciate that tone. Her accepting her sexuality ends in her having sex with what you call the “embodiment of male sexual domination” and then they both die. How does that make sense? It seems like everyone save the men loses out from her accepting her sexuality. And I don’t think it’s very coherent how the movie shows that sexual desire cannot be controlled – except via marriage – because that has murderous consequences, which can, however, also be resolved through sexual desire. I just don’t feel like the metaphors here work together and that is what I meant by “incomprehensible”.
To put it more clearly: In the Eggers films I’ve seen, every woman either ends up dead or part of a childremoved cult and I don’t think women who suffer are automatically a sign of feminist politics.