ENG 510 Lecture 5: Lecture 5, Feb 13 & 14: The Night of the Hunter
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Each question is out of 10, total of 40% Olalla looks at the paintings of her ancestors who resemble her a lot and so she has this consciousness that hr family, and this race, is going to end with her. She struggles with whether this stranger is in love with her, or is in love with her ancestors who have repeated this cycle of life over and over and they play out in her. As much as humanity can overcome its animal nature, it can just as simply go back to its animal nature. The family is beautiful, but it"s just flesh over the minds (the mind is not there, they have lost their humanity) Hard to tell if olalla is a vampire like her mother or not. It was rediscovered 20 years later and now it is seen as one of the best movies made in the 50s. Female sexuality and desire, and religion are major themes.
