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For the past year I’ve seen trailers and tidbits on a new movie “The Witch” that apparently was a film festival hit and would soon be reaching our screens. At first I was pretty flippant about the whole thing, I assumed it was simply another puritan witch hunt movie and I’ve had my fill of films like that. While this is essentially that type of movie, it does take things in a new direction, especially towards the end. The scariest thing in this movie is the cause of human nature, not as much supernatural.
The Characters: There are essentially 7 characters that need to be mentioned here. First we have
Thomasin, the oldest daughter in the family and the main character. She is the family …show more content…
The family moves to a plot of land just on the outskirts of the woods. Soon this family’s misfortune turns sour as crops start to die and animals become sick, the pressure on the family increasing and increasing. Things take a turn for the worse when the baby of the family is stolen by a witch under the watch of Thomasin, creating more tension with the already struggling family, especially between mother and daughter. The father lays traps for food but is unable to catch anything and the crops aren’t as fruitful as they had hoped. The mother is so distraught over her missing baby she stops caring for the family. Caleb, fearing for his family’s survival, begins taking on the role of provider, which ends up causing his demise. Caleb’s death is another thing Thomasin is blamed for. After Thomasin jokes with the twins about being a witch (didn’t we all scare our siblings telling them we were monsters and would eat them? I did), the children still being traumatized from witnessing their brother’s death, the twins fall into a fit of hysterics. This felt like a nod to the Salem hysterias. The twins are unable to remember their prayers, claim they are being attacked, and they fall down, seemingly possessed. In their tantrum, they tell their parents all about Thomasin’s claims of …show more content…
The twins can be seen constantly whispering to the goat, and speaking to him, to which Thomasin points to as witchcraft. The parent’s lock Thomasin, the twins, and the goat into a barn
For the past year I’ve seen trailers and tidbits on a new movie “The Witch” that apparently was a film festival hit and would soon be reaching our screens. At first I was pretty flippant about the whole thing, I assumed it was simply another puritan witch hunt movie and I’ve had my fill of films like that. While this is essentially that type of movie, it does take things in a new direction, especially towards the end. The scariest thing in this movie is the cause of human nature, not as much supernatural.
The Characters: There are essentially 7 characters that need to be mentioned here. First we have
Thomasin, the oldest daughter in the family and the main character. She is the family …show more content…
The family moves to a plot of land just on the outskirts of the woods. Soon this family’s misfortune turns sour as crops start to die and animals become sick, the pressure on the family increasing and increasing. Things take a turn for the worse when the baby of the family is stolen by a witch under the watch of Thomasin, creating more tension with the already struggling family, especially between mother and daughter. The father lays traps for food but is unable to catch anything and the crops aren’t as fruitful as they had hoped. The mother is so distraught over her missing baby she stops caring for the family. Caleb, fearing for his family’s survival, begins taking on the role of provider, which ends up causing his demise. Caleb’s death is another thing Thomasin is blamed for. After Thomasin jokes with the twins about being a witch (didn’t we all scare our siblings telling them we were monsters and would eat them? I did), the children still being traumatized from witnessing their brother’s death, the twins fall into a fit of hysterics. This felt like a nod to the Salem hysterias. The twins are unable to remember their prayers, claim they are being attacked, and they fall down, seemingly possessed. In their tantrum, they tell their parents all about Thomasin’s claims of …show more content…
The twins can be seen constantly whispering to the goat, and speaking to him, to which Thomasin points to as witchcraft. The parent’s lock Thomasin, the twins, and the goat into a barn