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The Witch (2015)

Film
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Form & technique
  • Thomasin's final scene (levitating with the coven)
  • The film's formal style (natural lighting, period-accurate dialogue, slow pacing)
  • The film's soundscape (atonal score, amplified natural sounds, vocalizations)
Tropes
  • The family unit's violent collapse The Abject
  • The New England wilderness
  • Thomasin's declaration, "I am that very witch"
  • Black Phillip, the goat

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