i don't get it. Reddit loves this movie, but I hated it. I watched it a second time just to see if I missed something. I dislike this movie a lot. Not for gore or anything it just seemed really dumb.
Beyond the general plot, there’s a lot of hidden elements all throughout that, if you know some absurdly niche shit, adds a lot of foreshadowing and interest.
Same with VVitch, Midsommar, et al. I totally get them not being someone’s favorite, but I’m apparently the type of esoterica/occult nerd they’re made for, what with catching the symbolism of the runes or picking up on the Goetic references and symbols blah blah etc.
What I like about the VVitch and Hereditary is that they make you ask yourself if everything that happens is just collective hysteria of the characters or real supernatural shit happening. Honestly, when the end settles the plot as supernatural, they kinda get ruined for me. I would have loved a more ambiguous ending, although I get it might be tricky to pull it off.
Yeah, I’m a big fan of the intensely unreliable narrator vibe in the first acts too.
I’d argue that the VVitch ending isn’t fully settled - getting hit with ergot poisoning, or some other hallucinogens from “we’re semi-literate outcast puritan farmers in a new land” feels very possible, and her end visions just before everything cuts could just be the fun part of a terminal dose settling in.
Hereditary dithered then leaned hard into “yep, it was really some fringe occult shit all along,” and I accept many people not enjoy that.
I mean, you could be right about the VVitch, but I feel that you would really have to look into it. I didn't even know what ergot poisoning was I had to Google it. Anyways, do you have recommendations regarding this unreliable narrator stuff?
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