It isnt a love triangle. Orlock isnt a good person. He says himself he cant love. And she says hes a monster and tortures him. But the main actress and the director have both stated that it’s a love triangle. It's unfortunate for them that they don't seem to understand that the way it's presented is full-on sexual assault. Hollywood in general loves to push some gross fetish shit. It really is gross and I hate that they keep getting a pass for it. I love Nosferatu. I was *very* excited for this movie. I read the draft script and my heart dropped over the language that was repeatedly used to describe the encounters with Orlok. It was *very* rape-fetishy. When I watched the film, it was clear to me that those elements are still very present. Yikes. "There's ambiguity, there's multiple ways to interpret it, blahblah..." No, really, there kind of isn't, though? This is a movie about a young woman who has repeatedly been raped by her obsessive, stalkery abuser since she was a child. The same guy who rapes her husband. Instead of exploring Ellen's sexual repression, we are subjected to her being repeatedly raped and told that no, actually, she secretly longs for it. ??? ...Okay.
It isnt a love triangle. Orlock isnt a good person. He says himself he cant love. And she says hes a monster and tortures him.
But the main actress and the director have both stated that it’s a love triangle.
It's unfortunate for them that they don't seem to understand that the way it's presented is full-on sexual assault.
Hollywood in general loves to push some gross fetish shit.
It really is gross and I hate that they keep getting a pass for it. I love Nosferatu. I was *very* excited for this movie. I read the draft script and my heart dropped over the language that was repeatedly used to describe the encounters with Orlok. It was *very* rape-fetishy. When I watched the film, it was clear to me that those elements are still very present. Yikes.
"There's ambiguity, there's multiple ways to interpret it, blahblah..." No, really, there kind of isn't, though? This is a movie about a young woman who has repeatedly been raped by her obsessive, stalkery abuser since she was a child. The same guy who rapes her husband. Instead of exploring Ellen's sexual repression, we are subjected to her being repeatedly raped and told that no, actually, she secretly longs for it. ??? ...Okay.