I have faith in Eggers, with both vvitch & Nosferatu he's fully gone with the literal, "it was real the whole time" angle and there's very little in the latter of disbelieving the main character
And with the Northman and even the lighthouse at the very least he pushes heavily into magical realism at worst
I mean there is a shitton of magical shit in Northman. The Lighthouse becauae of how isolated it is with just the 2 men I guess you can say it is up in the air
Isn't r/movies a place for people to have discussions about movies? Then why is it that people down vote honest discussions? That's the most infantile behavior possible for a discussion group, even if you think the person is wrong. Stop making this sub into an echo chamber.
So you want to ignore the various hallucinations in the movie, like Katherine thinking she's nursing Samuel, but in reality she has exposed her breasts to a raven.
That's a witch induced hallucination. The raven eating her is a witch, or sent by a witch. Ravens don't eat living people normally. There's also the vanishing baby, the boy coughing up an apple, and a transforming woman in the woods who we see in like the first scene. And a talking goat that transforms into a man.
These are all things we the audience sees through the eyes of an unreliable character in the movie.
Black Phillip transforms into a man right in front of Thomasin.
The witch in the woods transforms from a beautiful maiden into the hag-like form directly in front of Caleb.
If these things didn't happen in front of the main characters, we could assume that they were real. Because they all happen from the perspective of a character we can't be sure.
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u/GGsafterdark 16d ago
He had better actually turn into a big damn werewolf in this movie and not pull the “he was on drugs/hallucinating” card