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Capntastic posted:The characters in the film and their actions had almost no bearing on the motives of the antagonist (witches, the literal satan) and thus the first hour and a half is almost entirely wasted in terms of plot advancement no matter how much character-building, setting-building, tension-building, etc-building went on. The witch and Satan are not the antagonists in this movie.
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Capntastic posted:Nah, the witch stealing and pulping a baby in the first act and the Satan goat murdering the dad in the last is pretty antagonistic. The antagonism faced by Thomasin is the suspicion and oppression placed on her by her parents. Samuel is kidnapped and pulped because the father took them into the frontier. Caleb is driven into the woods because he's trying to protect his sister for being sent away by their mother. The witch incites these incidents and sets off the chain of paranoia, but is not actually an antagonist. Hell, Black Phillip killing the father could be interpreted as protecting Thomasin in a twisted way because at that point her only options were to be executed for being a witch. Instead, she's given the freedom from hatred and oppression she's longed for the entire movie.
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Feb 28, 2016 16:34
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Someone earlier mentioned they thought it was going to be a telling of the Book of Job and it kinda is only this time Satan wins the bet.
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ghetto wormhole posted:but he hated Fury Road This is grounds for justifiable homicide, FYI.
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