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Projections of a shared reality. By the end of the film, its shared reality is the reality of fiction itself, in which a wish can be realised as easily as reality can be realised simply by experiencing it.
The film works so well because Spielberg spends the first act adequately building a science-fictional reality in narrative time grounded in the realist techniques of American filmmaking in the wider late celluloid era.
When the film lapses into its new-wave 21st century…
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Eggers’ career-best work is this woozy dream of a film in which pandemic-era power plays are displaced from the 21st century COVID era to 1800s Germany. Being locked in bed at home for six weeks while your husband is away falling into the arms of an older man like a stand-in for you? How very 21st century. Vampirism is and isn’t a metaphor as power dynamics collapse in on each other and more or less nobody is left standing, certainly the marriage institution falls by the end of the film. Not just the secular marriage of contract law either, but marriage eternal; that’s fallen too.
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my uncle recommended this to me when i was eight
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★★★★★ Rewatched 03 May 2015
this is the worst movie ive ever seen
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