Nosferatu (2024) sexual content and it’s degenerate nature diminishes an otherwise great work of cinematography and storytelling in the contribution to vampire media

[u/Minute-Bank3886]

Having read both the original Bram stoker Dracula and the J.D. Barker versions, I truly hate how distracting the weird sexual content and necrophilic nature overshadows and contradicts the character motivations throughout the film, and many of those scenes were overdramatic or completely unnecessary.

As a story about the "fight against the ultimate evil" (paraphrasing here, but in the conventional means nosferatu/dracula is the embodiment of evil), the main afflicted character does little to make me empathize with her cause because she either does very little to truly fight the evil, or completely spites or shows a lack of empathy towards those whose lives she’s ACTIVELY putting in danger and concealing the truth about what’s actually happening from them.

The cherry on top for me is the ending, which is still heavily bogged down by the sexual content. In the end, plain and simple, evil, and I mean the true incarnation of evil… wins, and in a truly unsatisfactory and unappealing way. It’s not one of those "the good guys won at a heavy cost and nosferatu is still out there," or "we destroyed the idea of evil and saved the girl but at a heavy cost" the personification of evil literally gets what it wanted and it didn’t look like the girl disliked this turn of events imo or truly fought against this fate that the ending gave her, or even be at the greatest cost to nosferatu if he were to win in the end- just seemed like even the movie wanted the Nosferatu win after violating the men and women throughout the film. For evil to win so easily and there be no true sense of struggle or humanity out of the human characters truly missed the mark for me in a story trope about imo "a human struggle against unjust gods and a force of evil incarnate." The struggle against impossible odds is my draw and the characters we care about should win by indomitable human resolve or rage tragically against their fate in a story such as this. And watching it unfold the way it does is truly the worst case the movie could have went with for an ending.

[u/Noesfsratool]

So boohoo sex and it doesn't end like a fairy tale? It's horror film.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Noesfsratool]

Sex with corpses and decaying bodies?

[u/Noesfsratool → u/Minute-Bank3886]

Its a horror film i expect the contents to be horrific and unpleasant.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Noesfsratool]

Weird.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Minute-Bank3886]

And definitely not what it means to be horror or necessary make ppl feel scared.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Noesfsratool]

Matter fact go watch you’ll understand, bring a parent or loved one while ur at it. I’m sure it’ll be a pleasant shared experience.

[u/Noesfsratool → u/Minute-Bank3886]

I'm not sure what the difference would be? And i think alot of people have found it so.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Noesfsratool]

Bro you haven’t even seen it so why you even trying to input? Bro don’t know the difference from watching the movie yourself and hearing about it..

[u/Noesfsratool → u/Minute-Bank3886]

Didn't realise this was movie prudes

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/Noesfsratool]

Why are you talking plot about a movie you haven’t seen?

[u/pCeLobster → u/Noesfsratool]

Hey at least it's an actual person critiquing a movie. Normally this sub is bots posting pictures of random actors.

[u/crack-tastic]

This seems to be a movie you love or hate.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/crack-tastic]

There was tropes I liked (and William Dafoe) and elements from the books I saw that I did think were cool to see on screen. But I was completely taken out of investment in the motivations behind character behavior, when the main characters seemingly have a lack of the human quality that makes me empathic towards a character in a tragic tale.

[u/ExperienceOptimal132]

Lily depp is a beautiful girl but damn can she not be sexualised like all the time 

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/ExperienceOptimal132]

Agree. There is a place for subtlety in storytelling.

[u/ExperienceOptimal132 → u/Minute-Bank3886]

Bruh I got downvoted for saying not to sexualise lily 💀bros hate OFs girls but love porn, make it make sense 

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/ExperienceOptimal132]

Top gooners in here no doubt.

[u/ExperienceOptimal132 → u/Minute-Bank3886]

I was hate watching the idol and they had the camera glued on to her tits and ass, with that said I have seen lily really shines with extremely emotional roles. It’s very natural when she does them but she struggles with daily acting, like her just talking or moving, she comes off as almost wooden.

[u/Minute-Bank3886 → u/ExperienceOptimal132]

Funny because my girlfriend said something similar about her seeming mechanical. I thought her performance was great and it was obvious she gave all of herself for the role, but with that said there were times where I outright laughed because of how overdramatic the scene was making itself out to be, when for me, sometimes less is more. But that’s less about her as an actress and more of the artistic direction.

[u/ExperienceOptimal132 → u/Minute-Bank3886]

I agree with you both lily went all out but she needs to work on her basics