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NOSFERATU (2024) is a work of genius.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how difficult it is to capture dream states in art, and oh my, Eggers nails it. I can only easily talk about it after you’ve seen it. 

The dream is the rawest anti-rational human experience; it is to art what thought is to speech.

The theme of this film is the possibility of the occult in a world of reason. It is not convincing, but it is compelling. 

The speech is wonderful, with a slow, playfully Shakespearean dialect prevailing and the villain speaking in a Gothic Latin. 

There are many one-liners I could immediately recall, here’s a couple (both from an absolutely peak Willem Dafoe):

“I have seen things in this world that would make Sir Isaac Newton crawl back into his mother’s womb… I have wrestled with the devil as Jacob wrestled with the angel.”

“In another age you would have been a Priestess of Isis. In this modernity, you must be something much more… our salvation.”

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Happy to read this! I was on the fence about seeing it in the theater, but think I'll go today or tomorrow now!