Originally posted by: Intoxicator
Gurl, wow!! Have you ever thought of becoming a movie critic or going into media studies? That was some top-notch analysis right there.
Bly Manor is a very romanticized adaptation of The Turn of the Screw which I found to be a much more subtle horror novel than THOHH. There are some great moments even in this adaptation now that I think about it, but the Quint/Jessie romance is not such an overt element in the book anyway. I like Oliver Cohen-Smith though - he's got those aquiline British good looksđ¤Ł
It never occurred to me till you mentioned it but I can totally see how Midnight Mass could be very disturbing or downright offensive to Christians...
Not offensive, for sure, my brother loved it, but disturbing, in a way for me atleast. But I did love a lot about Midnight Mass, especially how Riley, the guy who was condemned to be a bad guy was actually the purest soul and how the ending was nerve-wracking where everyone accepts they did wrong and awaits the light of the Lord to wash them.
The muslim touch was magical, where the boy prays with his father, the father dies first and then the son, and of course, the torture of the woman who did not want to die and kept burying in the sand to hide herself.
The ending was good, ngl, but I could not connect to this one.