everyone loves robert eggers work so much that it’s turned into so many people sharing on the tl what they wish he’d adapt, so i need share my four front runners
"fiction is important for healing your mind during difficult times" and "escapism is (often) bad" aren't actually conflicting lines of thought, because the way that fiction can heal is through things other than just saccharine reinforcement, the feeling of catharsis is important
I think nosferatu treats vampirism as sexualized coercion: attraction that cannot be disentangled from violation. ellen’s connection to orlok isn’t romance/love it’s the film staging how desire and trauma can coexist in the same psychological space