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antigone was right
i haven't seen anyone talk about how in the beginning of the movie, after ellen is shown to be lonely and in need of a company and before she screams at the sight of orlok, she is letting out the soft moans but it doesn't seen like she is having sex, it seems like she is masturbating.
if orlok is a manifestation of ellen's repressed sexual appetite and he is repulsive bc the female sexuality is viewed as inherently sinful in the puritan society, then him "visiting" ellen during her puberty is a metaphor for her feeling shame for her sexual awakening and the first sexual experience - masturbation.
it's probable that her father sees her in that moment and condemns her for impurity, which forever alters ellen's perception of her sexuality and self.
Nosferatu (2024) is unquestionably a multifaceted work, but what I personally consider to be the unifying idea behind its facets is that, for Ellen, Orlok represents validation.
Her fears are dismissed and called childish?.. He's a nightmarish manifestation of them.
She is consistently disrespected by everyone around her?.. He considers her his only equal. She never uses his title, it's permitted.
She is told to fix herself, misunderstood, and always isolated?.. He knows all the darkest parts of her and is delighted by them. He wants her just as she is, so much that he will lie, kill, and cross the ocean to find her.
The scene in their death/wedding bed is a direct parallel to the scene of her waking in that bed at the beginning of the film. She complains to Thomas that the "honeymoon is yet too short" and tries to pull him down with a kiss - however, he is worried about being late for work, and so he extricates himself and leaves. Cut forward to her sharing the same bed with Orlok, similarly early in the morning; he is startled by cock-crow and begins to rise, but she guides his head back down - and, even though he knows that he will die, he stays. He is her sexual and emotional desire, realized.
Given that there is a plethora of emotions Ellen is forced to suppress on daily basis, there is no singular correct interpretation of her relationship with Orlok. To erase any one of them is to render it shallower than it actually is; but there is no doubt as to why their attachment is mutual. To each, the other is something they’ve never had before.
anyway ellen hutter crawling to thomas saying “ill be good” and “you could never please me like he could” is crazy work welcome back eroticism in horror
yes yes orlok as the grotesque manifestation of ellen’s hideous lust, monsterfucking blah blah blah. Hot.
But thomas… the lover that witnesses.. accepts… soothes… He saw her at her most depraved and still held her… you guys. He was the only other person who had *seen* what she saw in her dreams. He was there in that castle… was inflicted by orlok’s perversions. In the flesh. Still he made it home. Then he watched her, frothing at the mouth and shaking in demonic fury, to then crawling and begging at his waist for mercy, then a moment laters she’s looking up at him with the very devil in her eyes and tongue… and still, he held her! As she truly sobbed. He told her it was okay, that he had seen it too. Continued to love her as his woman, descend to hell and destroy the demon for her. And Ellen loved him too! She says she felt he was sent to her, made her feel normal and okay. Her salvation. A love that feels like depollution… to be so inspired by your love for somebody that for them you go, willing, to the altar as a sacrificial lamb. Her love for him gave her purpose! I love them… not orlok nor any contract could ever dissolve the bond between them.
Ellen is explicitly and intentionally the HERO of the story, who is not fighting against her "abuser" but a literal evil undead sorcerer who she accidentally-on-purpose summoned to her side with her literal spiritual powers and metaphorical struggles with accepting her own dark side and repressed desires in a time period where women were to be seen and not heard. On some level she IS attracted to him and Orlok is open and determined about his desire for her. He is the antithesis of the strict and judgemental society in which Ellen is forced to exist. If he wants something he simply goes after it and leaves a trail of destruction in his wake, and finding power and sauve seduction alluring is part of the DNA of the story of Dracula/Nosferatu. This is not monsterfuckers """romanticizing""" anything. It is explicit and intentional on the part of the director and actors. Argue with the wall
SONIC MOVIE 3
merry xmas and happy holidays ‼️ 🎄
Who else up succumbing to the darkness?
I like when Nicholas Hoult is a sad wet man tormented by vampires
Do You Know What It Means To Be Loved By Death?
Dancing in Space
Totally Average Stargazing Moment
thermonuclear hedgehogs
tfw ur wife turns into a cat 🐈 (based on this cute fic by @pseudowho )
ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅʀᴇ-ɪsɪᴅᴏʀᴇ ʟᴇʀᴏʏ ᴅᴇ ʙᴀʀᴅᴇ Shell Collection. 1803. Gouache watercolor.
A dramatic print covers the walls of the dressing room. The delicate porcelain basin and fittings add appealing contrast to the room's exotic look.
Southern Interiors, 1988
The floor, walls, and ceiling in this Tucson kitchen suit the Southwest's hot, dry climate. The black-tinted concrete floor is cool in summer and contains radiant heating for winter, and the high, exposed-joist ceiling allows heat to rise. Walls are clear-finished rammed earth, which moderates the summer heat and calls to mind adobe, one of the earliest building materials.
The Kitchen Idea Book, 1999
Sometimes you have to accept that some people can only be in your heart, not in your life.
When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness?
Charles Bukowski
- Jane Austen
ghosts are real and they’re everywhere. in old photographs tucked safely in a box under your bed. in the walls of your childhood home waiting for you to come back. they live in old text messages and emails. forever frozen in time. they haunt your old best friends neighborhood. flickering in the street lamps. occasionally, on very rare summer afternoons; when the sun shines through the kitchen window in a certain way and all of the sudden you get this feeling in your stomach of melancholia; that is a haunting. a possession. those are ghosts trying to find comfort in the present because the past they once lived in no longer exists.
𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐈’𝐦 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞.
excerpts from a book I’ll never write
- Vladimir Nabokov
M.L.Rio, “If We Were Villains.”
twenty years across the sea
The purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you
