'toddlers being torn apart by the vampire and thrown away like dolls? (I can’t see any artistic justification for the latter. It is utterly disgusting. Like Hitchcock and Truffaut, I consider killing children in films an “abuse of the cinema”'
Yes this was inexcusable--why?
I'm not sure about Eggers or his films, and by this I don't mean to express moral disapproval--this is beside the point, because to me watching a horror film is in itself an amoral act--but to say that I genuinely don't know what to make of him or them. I am inclined *maybe* to give him the benefit of the doubt more than you are on the Nihilism Question. I tried to say something interesting about this film here:
Lichtmesz ist einer der Gottbegnadeten. Lebten wir in besseren Zeiten, wäre ein Bildhauer bereits am Werk ihn in Marmor zu Meißeln für einen Ehrenplatz im schönsten Teil Wiens. Und meine Enkel legten eines Tages Blumen an seine weißen Füße.
Reading Lichtmesz is like an education in how to respond to this ugly world as if we were still the Europeans of a previous era.
Great review. I made the cardinal sin of not seeing the movie before reading it but you raise some interesting points (also compared to the review done by the Jungeuropa guys).
An excellent first instalment in your Substack, Lichtmesz. Congratulations!
'toddlers being torn apart by the vampire and thrown away like dolls? (I can’t see any artistic justification for the latter. It is utterly disgusting. Like Hitchcock and Truffaut, I consider killing children in films an “abuse of the cinema”'
Yes this was inexcusable--why?
I'm not sure about Eggers or his films, and by this I don't mean to express moral disapproval--this is beside the point, because to me watching a horror film is in itself an amoral act--but to say that I genuinely don't know what to make of him or them. I am inclined *maybe* to give him the benefit of the doubt more than you are on the Nihilism Question. I tried to say something interesting about this film here:
https://shadeofachilles.substack.com/p/the-better-sl00ts-of-our-nature-in?r=3jr7ai
Great read! Wonderful start to a new channel!
Lichtmesz ist einer der Gottbegnadeten. Lebten wir in besseren Zeiten, wäre ein Bildhauer bereits am Werk ihn in Marmor zu Meißeln für einen Ehrenplatz im schönsten Teil Wiens. Und meine Enkel legten eines Tages Blumen an seine weißen Füße.
Reading Lichtmesz is like an education in how to respond to this ugly world as if we were still the Europeans of a previous era.
Vielen Dank für die Blumen! ;-)
my favourite Nosferatu(s) review so far i wholeheartly agree.
Great review. I made the cardinal sin of not seeing the movie before reading it but you raise some interesting points (also compared to the review done by the Jungeuropa guys).