Yeah, I know it's just a stylization thing, but I'm sticking with it.
I'm ten years late to the party, of course, but I finally got around to watching The Witch (stylization just for the post title). This was Robert Eggers' debut feature, and also was Anya Taylor-Joy's breakout role.
As a further note, I, like Eggers, am a New Englander originally, and I always appreciate a story taking place in my own "homeland" so to speak. Of course, the irony is that the towns and cities around which I grew up were founded by militant puritans, while I grew up in an environment that was largely secular and progressive - the number of Irish Catholics in Boston would surely send many puritans to roll in their graves.
I believe the movie was predominantly filmed in Canada, but it matches the overall type of woodland that I remember growing up around. Frequently, my parents would take us to Salem to visit the Peabody-Essex Museum, but of course the city is known mostly for its infamous witch trials.
I had seen Eggers' The Lighthouse a few years ago, and while I think this movie has a more straightforward narrative, it's the kind of film that has a lot of subtext and questions boiling under the surface.
The movies is a decade old, but just to be safe, I'll put in a spoiler cut.
