Just watched "the witch" :wow:

[Knowledge]

Yeah that movie fukked with me for a few days after watching it. I trip out on the fact that some of the stuff in that movie had to have actually happened. Like some crazy bytch stealing a baby and doing what she did in the movie. Or psychos sacrificing in the woods an chanting shyt naked around a camp fire.

Then I thought about how those people didn't go away. It's a religion and I'm sure people practice those traditions to this day.

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it was uncomfortable to me the moment that brawd made a baby smoothie

 

[MartyMcFly]

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it was uncomfortable to me the moment that brawd made a baby smoothie

Yup that was the moment when I knew I wasn’t going to be cool when the movie ended

 

[johnedwarduado]

movie is thrash

 

[OsO]

Question...

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So the daughter subconsciously helped the witch covenant destroy her family?

 

[ShaDynasty]

Question...

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So the daughter subconsciously helped the witch covenant destroy her family?

If its subconscious how would we know?

But I don't think so, it was more like she was fascinated by the idea of witches and sick of the misery of her life.

 

[re'up]

I haven't seen since theater, but my take, from what I recall was she wanted to destroy her families Calvinist oppressive religious that had essentially trapped her in a dreadful life.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Great film, and one of the best folklore horror films ever. Also an interesting story about young girls and their place in society.

 

[3rdLetter]

I swear there was another thread on here about this movie and everybody said it was trash.

There's def more praise in this thread than the og thread cause I was thinking the same thing . That og thread was 50/50.

 

[(ALi)]

Awful movie.

 

[OsO]

If its subconscious how would we know?

If the daughter was intentionally helping the witches sabotage her family, it was conscious.

If the daughter was being used as some kind of energetic channel to sabotage her family without her consent or knowledge, it was subconscious.

Edit: Also, what made you think she was fascinated by the idea of witches?

Double Edit: And what about the twins, how do they play into all this?

 

[Sonny Bonds]

This girl I know thought the ending was a feminist statement. But I just thought

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that the daughter didn't have any other choice at the end. If she actually managed to make it back to town and tell what happened, they would've accused her of being a witch.

 

[ShaDynasty]

If the daughter was intentionally helping the witches sabotage her family, it was conscious.

If the daughter was being used as some kind of energetic channel to sabotage her family without her consent or knowledge, it was subconscious.

Edit: Also, what made you think she was fascinated by the idea of witches?

Double Edit: And what about the twins, how do they play into all this?

That's not my understanding of the word subconscious. Anyway it seems like the witches found it much easier to tap into her younger siblings than her through Black Phillip. She seemed devout tbh but she was treated unfairly not to mention she had to watch her whole family die. In the end I think she traded one cult for another more free, empowering one.

Thomasin had some interest in witches, she was teasing the twins about it.

 

[Shadow]

This girl I know thought the ending was a feminist statement. But I just thought

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that the daughter didn't have any other choice at the end. If she actually managed to make it back to town and tell what happened, they would've accused her of being a witch.

Yeah it is feminist, but like all good films with theming it doesn't beat you over the head with the implication.

Plenty of horror films are inherently feminism. The whole 'final girl' trope and she usually being the strongest person in the film, the one who can actually deal with the killer/threat. Ironically the genre has been shamed as being misogynistic because of nudity and plenty of women being killed. But feminism in horror is about pushing through adversity and making it through the other side. See: Alien, Halloween, Scream, Terminator, various Giallo films and so on.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

crazy this thread came up when my girl n i just saw this afew days ago

 

[MartyMcFly]

Question...

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So the daughter subconsciously helped the witch covenant destroy her family?

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I would say no. The witch didn’t actually do anything. The family started coming apart at the seams due to everything else around them and their own bullshyt. Then she decided to become a witch in the end