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I think this whole issue could have been avoided if Eggars had made the movie ten seconds longer; ten seconds showing that Orlok was there a long time and was deeply into the nookie. That would have fixed the whole thing. Because I did feel the issue but I also felt like he was nodding hard toward the 1922 version so maybe it was intentional. But ten more seconds of him losing himself in her would have done it.
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Agreed. When Kinski is feeding there's that moment when he pauses and maybe looks toward the window as if to say "oh crap I need to wrap this up". But then Adjani pulls him back down to her and he just says "screw it- let's do this". That brief bit is sufficient for me to grasp why he'd lose his sense of time. (Or just stop caring about daybreak.)
OK, just saw it and the ending is fine. This is fate. The creature's ending is foretold in a book. The creature himself announces that he is appetite, nothing more. She is the object of his appetite, so of course he cannot leave so long as she is willingly yielding. The nature of his covenant has a symmetry such that he is as much under her spell as she is under his. This isn't really a feminist take. It's not about "her choice." It's not a choice. It's a demand, but the demand is also laid upon him. His satisfaction is his utter exhaustion and dissolution. This is the most primitive, ancient, and desperate of negotiations with swirling cosmic forces--human sacrifice. Not surrendering to death is what brings greater suffering, a hint at the necessity of mortality. This seems rather apt considering our society's perverse obsession with youth (see The Substance) and considering the aging oligarchs in congress, the White House, on court benches (if Ginsburg had let go of her post earlier...), etc. We die and death dies with us, life renewed for those behind us. Death must be satisfied.
Now that I've seen it, this thread seems rather silly, as if the Nosferatu was a rational world actor who did not achieve post-nut clarity in time. The question that drives this thread is a misapprehension of the entire film.
Now that I've seen it, this thread seems rather silly, as if the Nosferatu was a rational world actor who did not achieve post-nut clarity in time. The question that drives this thread is a misapprehension of the entire film.