My goal is to show this to everyone I know so I can add “Go You Huskies!” to my vernacular
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
I suppose this is worth taking alongside the Eggers adaptation, if only for the fact that the two progress identically. The key differences are in characterization of Dracula and presentation. To the former, I would be hard-pressed to describe Dracula here as imposing, or even all that disturbing, whereas Eggers devotes all his energy in the Orlok scenes to making Jonathan as terrified as possible. To the latter, Herzog leans into the expressionist style of the original, and Eggers creates…
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An Elephant Sitting Still 2018
TW//self-harm, attempted suicide
There's a group of four scars on my right leg. I've cut myself all over my body, but those four are the deepest, and those are the ones that aren't leaving.
I think it was in seventh grade I realized something was wrong. There was a feeling that everything was falling apart even though nothing was. It was always lurking in the back of my mind, but that year it lept out at me and suddenly everything…
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Nope 2022
75/100
A chimpanzee, covered in blood, stands over a body as the last few breaths pass through its lips. There’s another body(or two or three) off to the side but they don’t matter; what matters is a shoe a few feet away, defying gravity and standing on its toe without support. The bodies are soon dragged away and forgotten—they don’t matter and they never did—but the shoe sticks. The shoe is an image: something impossible in the midst of brutality, so it becomes a story to tell. The specifics don’t matter, the suffering doesn’t matter, and the lives don’t matter. Everything fades, but the image remains.
