SPOILERS FOR NOSFERATU 2024!!!
NOSFERATU IS NOT ABOUT A R@PIST OR A GROOMER
every single take on this movie I’ve seen has been WRONG, the movie isn’t a victim/survivor story, and it shows that people can’t understand deeper meaning to movies beyond the surface level shown
The movie is meant to talk about women’s sexuality’s and the shame around it that was pushed upon them for years, Ellen talks about if evil comes from within, and she describes nosferatu as her shame, she feels ashamed for wanting nosferatu, and the ending scene is meant to show her embracing herself, and allowing herself to experience what she wants to experience.
the whole movie she spends her time lamenting about her husband being gone, because he was the only one who truly understood her, nosferatu didn’t affect her when her husband was around, he was her new life, but when he leaves she no longer has that expression, she no longer has a way to embrace her desires in a healthy way, so nosferatu comes back, her shame around her sexuality comes back
And to fully debunk the part where people see him as a groomer, he needs a WILLING participant to become his lover, they make it explicitly clear throughout the movie that Ellen needs to want to be with him, and she can’t be tricked into it either.
Gothic film and literature is meant to be disturbing and uncomfortable, its meant to take dark and unsettling things and show the beauty in these dark things, and this movie shows it in more than one way, it does it with Ellen and Nosferatu, and it also does it with friederek and his wife, when he is seen dead over his wife’s corpse, because he wanted to be with her one last time
I understand people wanting a movie to showcase survivors of grooming and trauma, but this movie is not it