The movies I just mentioned are all "gothic horror style". (Including this "Nosferatu" by FW Murnau) But this movie brings me multiple feelings. Sometimes it praises love, sometimes it praises God, sometimes it is weird, (this kind of The weirdness comes from Murnau's "mysticism" complex.) The horror atmosphere in the second half of the film has become the main theme again.
But the theme of the movie is still very clear, or more clearly, the main tone of the movie is "sunshine" and "positive". Unlike many other Murnau movies, there are more contradictions in the director's heart.
Light: (In the movie, light represents justice, and night represents evil. In the end, "light" overcomes "darkness") Love: (Love prevents the hero from being poisoned by vampires at a critical moment, and love makes the hero walk through mountains and rivers, regardless of hardships, desperately Back to his lover's side.) God and his beliefs: (The hero is saved by the nun in the church). The final ending of the movie, the pure girl's blood purifies the vampire. So that he can no longer harm the world. (Attention! The protagonist in the movie does not sleep in the same bed as the heroine, but sleeps beside her. {Murnau illustrates the purity of the heroine in this way.}). A typical "religious" ending.
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