He is the moment.
Count Orloc comes back from the dead in this 2024 adaption of the cult classic. Our sassy vampire man shows us romance isn’t dead, but merely sleeping. Robert Eggers said, where is all the romance? What happened to yearning? Situation ships? F that. And decided to raid Nosferatu's crypt and show us what a real man looks like, albeit a little rough around the edges.
Nosferatu is the people's princess when it comes to yearning. He is completely infatuated with Ellen though she is married, and that is saying a lot because men of those times only wanted a woman who has never experiance anything in her life besides eating and sleeping. Can't help but feel bad for him and his one-sided romance. But then he killed those kids and then I was like, 'not cool dude'. After that it was hard to be back on his side.
But inside every monster is someone who wants to be loved. Though the world may harm you and try to end your life, there is always a reason to keep going. But that reason was married and Count Orlok should've counted his losses.
I mean, somehow, he was able to reach out to Ellen telepathically, but he couldn't find anyone else? Really?
But I guess that's how infatuation works. Blinding you to the other horrors and threats you may come across.
Maybe we are all built the same in the end. Only wanting to be wanted by people who do not want us, only to prove to ourselves that if we can make someone like us that we deserve to be loved. To prove to our selves that they way we were loved in our upbringing was wrong and console in the fact that it is not our fault.
But that is dwelling on the past and it does no good. In many cases, it puts us back in the past when we need to move forward.
In the end, when we get what we want it is not entirely satisfactory and may be the reason for our demise; as Count Orlok and Ellen are finally together in the end, he is killed by his own undoing. Finding solace in the only thing he craves more than all the riches in the world, and that she has lead him to his demise though she has made it clear that she could never love him the way he wanted to be loved.
In the end we cannot expect our obsessions, or someone else, to save us.
Ok, time to be reel.
The lighting makes for a dark and dreary time period though it feels artificial with all the blue tones and lack of substantial color. Acting wise it was lacking and I felt it could’ve used more hysteria. The whole movie seems to revolved around these five people and makes no way for world building which feels lazy. Editing and story line progression were choppy and at times inconsistent, bouncing back and forth from one character to the next with no explanation. I was excited for this movie but was let down. Overall, 6/10.
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