r/moviecritic • u/Minute-Bank3886 • 1d ago
Nosferatu (2024) sexual content and it’s degenerate nature diminishes an otherwise great work of cinematography and storytelling in the contribution to vampire media
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.
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u/Noesfsratool 1d ago
I'm not sure what the difference would be? And i think alot of people have found it so.