The power of suggestion the strength of talent

Conscious viewer will find at least a few ways of interpreting "The Witch" - so storyline and themes, as well as layers of metaphorical - and turns out to be a huge advantage of this opportunity to film. Loud debut of Robert Eggers some consumers will look at the bitter religious fanaticism and the accompanying hysteria, and in the eyes of others will disclose to patients as a picture of Puritan repression or, simply, robust fantastic. It is above all, "The VVitch: A New-England folktale" intuitive film and raw horror is undertaking restoration attempt in the modern horror cinema. Current video species domination oppresses the ambivalence of obviousness (see "Presence"). Eggers speaks so the shallow approach to the genre of war. "The Witch" is a psychological horror film: the story is accompanied by negligible saturation and emotional form of all-encompassing melancholy.
The director introduces us to a group of heroes - members of a poor family. This is the seventeenth century, William, his wife Katherine and their four children live on a farm in the middle of the forest, where they suffer hunger and cold. Excommunicated from the New England settlements, they are forced to live in degrading conditions. One day is born the fifth child of William and Katherine. Joy parents quickly gives way to despair: baby dies in unclear circumstances. The blame for the misfortune is fraught with the eldest daughter, Thomasin.
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It is through her inadvertently allegedly kidnapped newborn witch, having lurked in the surrounding wilderness. We do not know whether in fact the dark forest behind the witch. Eggers made a movie suggestions doing more than providing answers.
It occurs in one of the scenes a great twist, in which (spoiler!) Maturing son of William lost in the woods and goes to the gloomy cave. With its interior emerges alluring young woman - presumably antybohaterka title. The colors of her clothes and sex appeal challenging contrasts sharply with the brooding autumn, surrounding personnel. Mysterious Miss slowly approaching the boy, deceives him into temptation.
We know that can not end it well. The sequence, as if plucked from a nightmare, much like the classic moment from "The Shining" where Jack Nicholson meets in a deserted hotel naked beauty. Both "The Witch" and Kubrick's masterpiece, masterfully operate enigma and uncertainties. Enhance the atmosphere of mystery photo by Jarina Blaschke, who has a remarkable understanding of the personnel. "The Witch" was filmed in the format 1: 1.66, the filmmakers abandoned decades ago. Antypanoramiczny, naturalistic image adapted to the scenery, outdoor location and feelings that accompany heroes. Claustrophobia and hounded, which sentenced the form, compounded by overwhelming conditions at home and the invasiveness of the woods dense, separating the farm from the world. Jobs operator on the one hand stable and symmetrical, on the other hand restless, which puts connotations between "The Witch" and "Ida" Pawel Pawlikowski. Following this lead, the film almost Eggers is a picture in black and white. At considerable attention should be paid to resonant soundtrack, full of horror and tieflings. Used by the composer in one of the opening scenes ensembles songs sound like fallen angels. Eggers made a film not only historically authentic, but devoted and history. Screenplay and dialogues written based on the diaries, letters and court records, preserved from the years in which the plot of the film deposited.
So it is not "The Witch," a folk tale, a realistic project. Language, which operate on the set of actors congregation differs from modern English, sometimes requires maximum concentration - it seriously, simply, to understand.
In preparation for the film, the creators thoroughly studied the history of New England the seventeenth century, the history of witch hunts, and finally - in the case of actors - the distance of a passionate science extinct varieties of English. Their ambitious efforts deserve the sincerest awards. You can not review the "The Witch," not to mention the renovated final film. Since personnel honoring his presence Embodiment worst fears heroes Eggers rewards impatient viewers all their toil. It is ghastly, inhuman, fear osaczający screen could be cut with a knife. At the end it comes time to pull cool shade of the forest joy.
The film does not end with a happy ending.
It turns out to be a refreshing experience while watching the liberation of the main character, which - they passed through the darkest corners of this life - meets the brightest, the most euphoric privileges otherworldly life. "The Witch" in full swing for a long time, but never yadda yadda. It's a film fascinating, mysterious and subconscious, built on the power of suggestion, horror showing a high-class art. In the past few years, a few young directors managed to make a work as complete and ambitious. If Robert Eggers does not receive even a nom