• usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    no that’s really silly the monsters in a movie can at once be metaphors and also literal monsters within the narrative in dracula the vampire both represents a horror from the old world come into the new and a scary dude that eats people

    it’s called a story having themes

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      Guy looking at dracula: damn an empire teetering at the apex of its power is anxious about the horrors of colonialism being turned inward, and the hidden debauchery that undergirds a puritanical society!

      The true point arcing above his head: damn eastern Europeans are weird

    • Yeah it follows has one theme executed poorly. It has one metaphor also executed poorly. Its a facil movie and a typical monster movie shot in a somewhat art house style. I really think its the style that makes people see a depth that is just not present.

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        no it doesn’t only have one theme we’re just only talking about one of the themes right now. Alcoholism and addiction are also themes of the movie for example

        and your idea of the metaphor being executed poorly seems to be that the film also treats the in narrative real monster as a real monster as well as a metaphor