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Parallels in “Nosferatu” (2024)

Three nights. Three vampire hunters. Three of everything:

Three main themes (disease, death and sex) connected to trauma, pain and violence. In his own essay to “The Guardian” about his “Nosferatu”, Robert Eggers writes: “what are we to make of stories like this? What kind of trauma, pain and violence is so great that even death cannot stop it? It’s a heartbreaking notion. The folk vampire embodies disease, death, and sex in a base, brutal and unforgiving way.”

Three nights. Three goals:

"You are not for the living. You are not for human kind": force Ellen to confront her own power (death);

"You deceive yourself": destroy Ellen's Victorian self-deception (her power won't ever be accepted by Victorian society)

"Remember how once we were? A moment. Remember?": compell Ellen to remember their shared trauma by forcing other characters to relive it (reincarnation theme + "Wuthering Heights" inspiration)

Three main "blood plague" victims and deliriums: unbearable guilt (Thomas), burdens of reproduction (Anna Harding), maddening grief (Friedrich Harding).

"I’ll kill him! He shall never harm you again. Never! [...] Please, it is my fault! Forgive me my dear, sweet friend!" "Suffocating… I… feel so weak… I… I fear little Friedrich is so strong and hungry, he’s eating me weary." "Anna, my love. Our son … our little son… forgive me. I shall never sleep again. Never."

Three times is Ellen compared to a fairy-like being:

"She is truly a… nonpareil of beauty. Almost a sylph." "Father… he would find me in our fields… within the forest… as if – I was his little changeling girl." "You mustn’t be swept up in her fairy ways."

Three times is Ellen told she's not for the living:

"You, you... You are not for the living. You are not for human kind." "I told you, you are not of human kind." "In heathen times you might have been a great priestess of Isis."

Three times is Thomas warned about "Orlok's shadow":

"Beware his shadow. The shadow covers you in nightmare. Awake, but a dream. There is no escape. Pray. Pray." "You are lost in his shadow. Enchanters turn their spirit into shadow to infect your dreams. Remain here!" "Wait! You are not yet well!"

Three times Thomas is laughed at by characters affiliated with Orlok, or Orlok himself:

"He [Orlok] has one foot in the grave, as they say." "Yesternight was but the eve of their Szent András. Our common people say it is the darkest witching night when Devil’s magic bids the wolf to speak with tongues of men, and every nightmare freely treads upon this earth, ascendent from the torturous grave." [extended cut]

Three times Orlok was a shadow at Ellen's window:

"Soon I will be no more a shadow to you. Your spirit was never enough. Soon our flesh shall embrace and we shall be as one." (Because that's all he was to her in her teenage years)

Three times Ellen mentions dreams of Death/Orlok:

"I must tell you my dream. No… It was our wedding…. Yet not in chapel walls. Above was an impenetrable thundercloud outstretched beyond the hills. The scent of the lilacs was strong in the rain… and when I reached the altar, you weren’t there. Standing before me, all in black… was… Death. But I was so happy, so very happy. We exchanged vows, we embraced, and when we turned round, everyone was dead. Father… and… everyone. The stench of their bodies was horrible. And – But I had never been so happy as that moment… as I held hands with Death." "Professor… My dreams grow darker, they sicken me. Does evil come from within us or from beyond?" "He stalks me in my dreams, all my sleeping thoughts are of him, every night!"

Three times Orlok is shown to feed on souls (soul in the blood/ strigoi myth):

Thomas exorcisim "You will press thy lips to my cold mouth and I will drink upon thy soul." [extended cut] "I relinquished him my soul…"

Three times Clara and Louise Harding spoke (foreshadowing devices):

"No! We can’t! There is a monster in the room! Papa! Papa! Don’t let her feed me to the monster!! Stab him!" "Mama! Papa! Is that the monster?" "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep."

Three failed "spikes of cold iron":

Three times Orlok conjures pure horror before feeding:

Three times Orlok is identified as Solomonar:

"A black enchanter he was in life. Şolomonari. The Devil preserved his soul that his corpse may walk again in blaspheme." "Solomonari. And their codex of secrets." "Our Nosferatu is of an especial malignancy. He is an arch-enchanter, Şolomonari, Satan’s own learnèd disciple." [extended cut]

Three times Orlok is seen performing sorcery:

“Your husband is lost to you. Dream of me. Only me.” (Solomonari Sex Magick ritual) “Nature, increase thy thunders, and hasten me upon the wings of thy barbarous winds" (Solomonari weathermaker or Dacian cloud traveler) [Without subtitles]: Orlok influences Thomas' dreams for him to kick Ellen out of bed

Three Solomonari Sex Magick rituals:

"Your lordship. It is entirely as you have demanded of me. He shall presently be in thy rule, and I shall attend thee here, near the object of thy contract!" "Your husband is lost to you. Dream of me. Only me." "And so the maiden fair did offer up, her love unto the beast, and with him lay, in close embrace until the first cock crow. Her willing sacrifice thus broke the curse, and freed them from the plague of Nosferatu."

Three spiritual obsession scenes linking Herr Knock and Ellen (Orlok has to be summoned for these communications to happen):

"He is coming." [Who, who is?] ‘Twas He that invoked me! ’Twas I that was chosen to serve Him for I know what He covets. And He shall cast upon you curses, confusion, affliction and rebuke, for you have forsaken me! And He shall reign over all your empty corpses! Devourence!" "Enduring night… a spectre of death… He… he… spreads his shadow… and… and… he is coming– [Who, damn you!? Speak!!] I shall persist to join you every night, first in sleep, then in your arms. Everything will be mixed with abomination, and you'll be knee-deep in blood. Everyone will cry. There will be none to bury the dead. You are promised to me!" "Help me! Help me!" "His Lordship! He is come!" "He is here!"

Three kneeling scenes:

"Pray then, instruct me, my Lord. Charge me. Use me. Yet my Lord, I beg thee." [Silence, dog! Your entreaties grow insolent. You shall crave of me nothing.] "Please, have pity, Thomas is very poorly and… Friedrich, you must listen to me, we are all in the most grave danger – I throw myself at your feet! [Frau Hutter, please!] Listen to me, please! "No! Please. I’ll be good, I’ll be good..."

Three times Orlok placed intentions inside of Thomas' head:

"Get off me. Give me room. I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe… Get off!" “Another night has passed. More blood shall stain thy hands. Tomorrow shall be his last.” [extended cut] “I will drive a spike of cold iron through him. [...] No. I will not wait ‘til morning! We must stop him now. I feel his hold upon me this night."

Three times the "reincarnation theme" is introduced in the dialogue:

"Yet, I cannot be sated without you. Remember how once we were? A moment. Remember?" "He took me as his lover then, and now he has come back. He has discovered our marriage and has come back!" [this "then" is 300 years ago] "You could never please me as he could."

Three times Friedrich-Anna Harding paralleled Ellen-Orlok (mirror pairs)

[In public.] "I cannot resist you, my love." Friedrich and Anna sex scene [extended cut] = Ellen and Orlok sex scene "Let this your tender embrace keep me now in bliss, away from everlasting sleep." "And so the maiden fair did offer up her love unto the beast, and with him lay, in close embrace until the first cock crow. Her willing sacrifice thus broke the curse, and freed them from the plague of Nosferatu."

The three main themes connect Anna-Friedrich and Ellen-Orlok final scenes:

Disease (Blood plague); Sex (Necrophilia) and Death (self-explanatory) Wedding dress - kiss - sex

Three times Ellen's destiny is mentioned, and in connection to Orlok:

"Look at the sea! Does it never call to you? Urge you? Something is close at hand- Destiny!" "Yet even now we are fated." "You run in vain! You cannot out-run her destiny!"

Three times is Ellen's faith seen (enchantress):

"Come to me. Come to me: A guardian angel, a spirit of comfort – spirit of any celestial sphere – anything – hear my call. Come to me." [Have you so little faith in me?] "I will send you my utmost faith and you will write to me every day." "He does not have power over you, Thomas. I place my utter faith in you." [...] "I bid you, come to me."

Three times the Dawn is connected to Orlok, Ellen, Thomas and Herr Knock:

Knock: "I shall then stifle out the bridegroom, your Lordship." Orlok: "I have use in him." Knock: "Pray then, instruct me, my Lord. Charge me. Use me. Shall I fetch unto thee thy pretty belonging?" Orlok: "The compact commands she must willingly re-pledge her vow. She cannot be stolen [...] Daybreak draws near. Anon the bells of dawn shall toll in despair of my coming. And I shall taste of you."

Three "possession" scenes:

Orlok takes control over Thomas' soul (Solomonari Sex Magick Divorce ritual) Orlok possesses Thomas to have sex with Ellen ("Possession scene") Orlok possesses Ellen's soul (Breaking of Nosferatu curse)

Three are the ways Ellen’s heart (soul) is connected to Orlok:

[Your words spring from your honest heart] “My heart [locket] is lost without my Thomas.”  "Kiss my heart! My heart!”  [the "possession scene" | "No! Orlok!"] Her giving Orlok her heart/soul to feed on (heart blood): her blood plague delirium is love

Three interrupted sex scenes (only Orlok carries on):

"The honeymoon was yet too short! Take off your shoes. One minute more." "Stop. Stop my love. Do you hear that?" [extended cut] "More... more..."

Three representations of unbearable grief:

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MIDNIGHT MASS (2021, dir. Mike Flanagan) NOSFERATU (2024, dir. Robert Eggers)

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psychosexualism in tom à la ferme (2013) / michel-marc bouchard ‘tom a la ferme’, sonya vatmosky ‘pseudomonarchia lacrimae’, ocean vuong ‘no one knows the way to heaven’, richard siken ‘little beast’

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Behind the scenes of “Absolute Beginners (2023)”

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My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Hey, if you know someone with ADHD

I just wanna let you lads without adhd in on something

Those of us with adhd have this nifty little thing called RSD. It stands for rejection sensitive dysphoria. Something like 99.8% of people with adhd have it. It’s an example of how adhd messes with emotional regulation.

If someone with adhd even perceives that they may possibly upset someone whose opinion and love they value, they may have a complete emotional breakdown, complete with tears and the certainty that they will now be hated forever. This reaction can also be caused by their own opinion of themselves.

If you see someone you know who has adhd make a mistake, please be gentle with them - especially if that mistake is related to you or someone else. You may save them an RSD episode and a lot of heartache.

Also, as a side note, RSD can also kick in when it comes to things someone with adhd likes. For instance, if I find a comic online and find it funny, if I show it to you, I’m confiding in you not to hurt me. Showing someone something I love takes a huge amount of trust. That’s because, if someone who I care about says something mean or negative about something I like, it can literally, permanently ruin it for me.

This isn’t melodramatics. It’s not about being bitter or petty. It’s an RSD response that comes from feeling inadequate if the things I like don’t measure up to the people whose opinions I care about. I’ve had entire hyperfixations absolutely ruined for me because my sister said she ‘didn’t get it’ and compared beloved characters to something she knows I hate. I could no longer see that show without thinking of the overwhelming sadness that came with that experience. That show became shame. It’s taken almost a year for me to even be able to palate looking at content for it again.

These days, I don’t share hyperfixations with people I’m not confident understand how much they mean to me. It’s a touchy subject and can end in devastation.

So, my point is, if you know someone with ADHD, please be kind to them and keep this in mind when they share things with you. You don’t have to like something or even understand it to show compassion. Maybe ask a question or two before letting the topic trail off. If you don’t seem very interested, they’re likely to find other people to talk about it with anyway, since it’s clear you’re not very into it (depending on how socially aware they are). However, even if they can tell you’re not into it, you’ve made a compassionate and understanding experience for them, showing your support and love and letting them know you care.

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