#posting this entirely on my own btw i don't KNOW what the other two mods think about this but they have also watched the film

[victorfrankensteinsuggestions]

I wasn't going to make a post about it because I am a firm believer in simply not engaging with people who have rancid shit takes on the internet and just moving past it but it's been like the fourth tweet I've seen today clearly taking the Nosferatu (2024) film at face value and then blaming people who interpret it differently (see: not taking the themes and motifs depicted in the film as per our modern, non-fictional, dare I say even bordering on puritan standard of what constitutes "good" media and "good" representation) and I'm just sooo tired of it all.

The amount of people agreeing that it's a movie that depicts certain themes "wrongly" is sooo exhausting. It's gothic (technically romantic, actually). It's horror. It's not meant to be therapy speech healthy tropes and sunshine.

It has MANY different readings that you can take away from it. Not just the one "this is what This Movie means," because the themes and topics and motifs or whatever the fuck you want to call them are many, and some of them can coexist. And some may even be opposites! And that's ok because for one, it's fiction. And for another, the Vampire as a monster, as a concept, is a thing that has existed for CENTURIES and has come to mean many a thing. And at this point I'm just rambling with no point or purpose but. It just pisses me off how close-minded the general public is to any piece of media that is no longer clear cut and adamant about what it depicts and what that depiction entails.

When the gothic and the horror are PRECISELY the genres that are most detached from clear cut and easy to comprehend. And they are NOT supposed to be happy and healthy and rainbows! Because the romantic and the gothic are supposed to be about exploration! What it means to be human! What is a monster! There's so much to talk about I'm just... So I've come to the website with the mentally ill homosexuals and transgenders in search of community.

(And I did like the movie a lot, actually)