Having seen neither the original this was great! I was definitely horrified. That shit was scary as fuck! DOPE film, but how close is it to the original? Because there's something oddly anti-feminist about it...
Well yeah. There's nothing anti-feminist in this movie at all. I don't know how you got that reading. At all.Thanks! So WHAT the fuck is up with Luca Guadagnino? that fucking third act as GOAT as it fucking was just seemed SUPER Anti-feminist. Or is it just me?
Alright, that's like the extreme opposite of my reading of the film, I'm interested in a little more of your thought process :D
Awesome and same. I thought the third act was amazing, well shot, and probably summoned a demon in my crib. That's how scared I was lol. Still, got an anti-feminist vibe from it though. Wish I could exp oh sin it better than my poorly written post above. I literally don't know how to describe that ending better than that.I enjoyed the 3rd act. It was batshit insane. On my viewing, I saw a couple old women walking out the movie while it happened. Joy.
The remake casts Mater Suspiriorum as not a she-devil but a vengeful goddess looking to punish a coven that has forgotten its way and now uses the religion to exploit and harm young women. She grants a merciful death to the young women she can't save and gets vengeance on those who did this to them. At the end she's like "yeah, I'm sorry they fucked with you, the truth about your wife is this, but also I can't let you remember any of this."
It's pretty feminist.
What,Hmmmmm... Ionno. I'm googling it and some seem to have my take l, as well. Not many, but a few. Basically women in power is violent and terrible is the read from the movie and especially the third act.
What,the woman with the most power rights the wrongs of the coven.
And used a man to do it. Also let that Nazi collaborator (I get it, but still... he was) live with some sanity...
And used a man to do it. Also let that Nazi collaborator (I get it, but still... he was) live with some sanity...
YeahThank's for going into more detail about your reading of the film! :) But yeah, I didn't interpret it like that, I felt the figure was very much genderfluid and wasn't easily identified as male or female. Even ignoring the credits where they are credited as "Death" personified.
But even if I go for your reading I don't really see how this gives that action an anti-feminist reading. If it was a male character, it would be a man that gets entirely controlled by Suspiria, a (or rather, THE) female figure without agency of his own. Suspiria gets painted in a pretty positive light in the context of this movie, seeing how she punishes the "villains", mercifully releases the prisoners of their torture in an empathic way and even goes out of her way to give old Tilda Swinton some peace.
Well, names too. The characters in the remake are named after the characters in the original. Suzy also befriends Sara, which happened in the original. Also, the whole setting (1977 Germany, even though remake was set in Berlin and the original was set in Freiberg).The only thing they have in common is basically a dance academy and Mater Suspiriorum to some degree.