the thing that makes thomas so compelling in nosferatu 2024 is that he’s downright pathetic but he cares so much about his wife that he turns his patheticness into brave devotion. idk if that makes sense. like he’s SO pathetic but then he puts on his big boy pants and does his best because he’s so devoted to his wife that it doesn’t even matter. “excuse me but she asked for no pickles” ahh marriage. i love him so bad.
josh o’connor is such a peaceful perfect little sweet baby angel and i hope nothing bad ever happens to him and also that he has a really yummy breakfast today because i think that’s important
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Clears throat
THERE SHE IS!
Josh O'Connor as Mr. Elton in Emma. (2020)
crying!!!!! so normal abt her and this film
Lee's hesitation here is so interesting to me. She's reassuring herself just as much as she is trying to reassure Ruth.
Lee can't believe her own words, though.
The way everything went down. With Kobble. It wasn't satisfying. It was messy, horrific and yet... over in an instant.
All Lee has now is hundreds of unanswered questions and a vile, dreadful pit in her stomach.
The man who has haunted her home for decades, destroyed before she can even process his existence, let alone BEGIN to accept it.
Kobble was a spectre - a blurry figure lingering in the corners of her vision for practically her entire life.
That's another pill that she can't quite swallow.
Lee has had Kobble in her life for longer than she hasn't.
She didn't know. She feels sick.
But he's GONE. He's DEAD. She's free, and so is Ruth. Surely, now, they can be safe again.
Patrick Zweig, my beloved.
It’s kind of crazy to me that Thomas gets flak for trying to get to work on time, or taking a job assignment, despite his wife being worried about it. It’s not really greedy for a lower middle class man with debt and a wife to support (because societal expectations mean she can’t work) to care about not losing his job and it’s not greedy for him to want a slightly better paying job.
It’s also not a reflection of lack of intimacy/love/trust between Thomas and Ellen that he makes financial stability a priority.
Also that the flowers scene is a reflection of Thomas not understanding Ellen, because she says she’s upset about the flowers dying. She’s just had a dream that messed her up that had lilacs in it. It’s not about him getting her flowers it’s about him getting her lilacs after she just had a nightmare heavily featuring them combined with the stress over his upcoming trip. She’s upset about what the flowers represent (a bad omen and a result of him apologizing for leaving for the trip) not him getting her flowers.