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Absolutely love seeing Eggers delve into folklore-inspired storytelling again. The tone was masterfully bleak, the dialogue sharp and purposeful, and the word choices evoked the era and psyche of the characters perfectly. I was completely immersed in the setting-both time and place felt authentic and textured. Bill Skarsgård embodied a sinister, almost mythic vampyr presence, enhancing the story's eerie gravity. The film's exploration of hysteria and melancholy was consistent, subtle, and deeply unsettling. Nosferatu became more than a creature-it emerged as a metaphor for pestilence and existential dread. The oppressive atmosphere pulled me into a haunting sense of despair. I'm absolutely looking forward to whatever Eggers conjures up next.

Cronenberg excels at depicting the most grotesque future where "surgery is the new sex", everything including cutting people and excaving organs is overly and overtly sexualized in this "Cronenbergian" world. Machines and organisms are merged together as people and technology evolve in a converging manner. Main idea of the movie was quite great but the execution was poor at times, and the social message that we should "clean our mess" and start to eat plastic was a weird idea and couldn't be implemented as well into the movie. Other than that the aesthetic of the movie was dark, grotesque and gave me the chills, settings and props served the story wonderfully.

Blind Chance was built on a fascinating and intriguing idea yet the film feels like it's made mostly for the Polish audience or at least the audience familiar with 80s in Poland. Some scenes feel too uncomprehensible, and the director doesn't even bother explaining them. The three versions being built on mainly political, religious and scientific paths is another good idea of the film but the execution falls short yet again. Overall interesting movie but it's not fun to watch or even thought-provoking as it may sound.