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====Three Minute Film Summary==== | ====Three Minute Film Summary==== | ||
| + | The film opens as a young girl (Ellen, played by Lily Rose Depp) prays for companionship after the loss of her mother--first she calls out for an angel... or a celestial being... or anything. At these last words, she is visited by a terrifying spirit, causing her to collapse. | ||
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| + | Years later, in 1838, Ellen lives in the town of Wisborg, Germany, and is now married to Thomas Hutter, a real estate agent. Thomas accepts an assignment to sell a castle to the mysterious Count Orlok, despite Ellen's dreams and warnings of dark premonitions. While visiting Orlok's castle in the Carpathian Mountains, Thomas discovers the count is a vampire obsessed with his wife, Ellen. Thomas barely escapes the castle with his life, is rescued and nursed back to health by nuns from a nearby monastery, and then rushes back to warn Ellen of Orlok's approach. | ||
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| + | Meanwhile, Ellen continues to experience disturbing dreams, accompanied by seizures and sleepwalking episodes. Her physician, Dr. Sievers--a man of science and rational thought--is unable to diagnose her, and so consults Professor Von Franz, an expert in supernaturalism. Von Franz identifies Orlok as the vampire Nosferatu. | ||
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| + | Orlok arrives in Wisborg by ship, bringing with him a host of plague-infected rats. The town falls into chaos as the plague spreads. Orlok threatens to destroy Wisborg unless Ellen reaffirms a supernatural pact from her youth. With help from Professor Von Franz, Ellen learns she must make the ultimate sacrifice to defeat Count Orlok. While Von Franz distracts Thomas and Sievers with a false lead, Ellen summons Orlok to her one final time, keeping him "occupied" until dawn. The sunrise destroys Orlok, and Thomas arrives just as Ellen dies from her wounds, her sacrifice saving the town from destruction. | ||
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====Total Depravity==== | ====Total Depravity==== | ||
| + | ====Dreams==== | ||
====Trial and Temptation==== | ====Trial and Temptation==== | ||
====Darkness and Light==== | ====Darkness and Light==== | ||
====Christ and Anti-Christ==== | ====Christ and Anti-Christ==== | ||
Revision as of 20:16, 1 February 2025
Contents
John 3:19-21 (NT p.94)
19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”
Mark 7:20-23 (NT p.42)
20 And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. 21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
James 1:12-15 (NT p.229)
12 Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one. 14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.
Faith & Film XIII: Nosferatu
- Film Clip #1 - Trailer
Three Minute Film Summary
The film opens as a young girl (Ellen, played by Lily Rose Depp) prays for companionship after the loss of her mother--first she calls out for an angel... or a celestial being... or anything. At these last words, she is visited by a terrifying spirit, causing her to collapse.
Years later, in 1838, Ellen lives in the town of Wisborg, Germany, and is now married to Thomas Hutter, a real estate agent. Thomas accepts an assignment to sell a castle to the mysterious Count Orlok, despite Ellen's dreams and warnings of dark premonitions. While visiting Orlok's castle in the Carpathian Mountains, Thomas discovers the count is a vampire obsessed with his wife, Ellen. Thomas barely escapes the castle with his life, is rescued and nursed back to health by nuns from a nearby monastery, and then rushes back to warn Ellen of Orlok's approach.
Meanwhile, Ellen continues to experience disturbing dreams, accompanied by seizures and sleepwalking episodes. Her physician, Dr. Sievers--a man of science and rational thought--is unable to diagnose her, and so consults Professor Von Franz, an expert in supernaturalism. Von Franz identifies Orlok as the vampire Nosferatu.
Orlok arrives in Wisborg by ship, bringing with him a host of plague-infected rats. The town falls into chaos as the plague spreads. Orlok threatens to destroy Wisborg unless Ellen reaffirms a supernatural pact from her youth. With help from Professor Von Franz, Ellen learns she must make the ultimate sacrifice to defeat Count Orlok. While Von Franz distracts Thomas and Sievers with a false lead, Ellen summons Orlok to her one final time, keeping him "occupied" until dawn. The sunrise destroys Orlok, and Thomas arrives just as Ellen dies from her wounds, her sacrifice saving the town from destruction.
