Sooo... has anyone been able to find subs for the German parts? I'm asking for a friend...

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there's a download out there, if you google "is Suspiria supposed to have subtitles?" a subreddit comes up with the link.



I'm just gonna wait till the month end and get the blu ray cause fuck it

Thanks! My friend will be so happy.

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Easily one of the best soundtrack of 2018 (with Carpenter's Halloween"), even if i found the new Suspiria pretentious and soulless (but still a good watch). Deserved an oscar nominee imo.

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I liked certain scenes of the new Suspiria (obviously the dance scene, some of the performances, etc) but overall it wasn't for me. I found it overlong, pretentious, and incredibly boring tbh



Watching it again, the soundtrack wasn't AS bad as I remember, although I still did find Thom's voice incredibly distracting in the scenes where his vocals were utilized. I think part of the problem is that he's too recognizable, so it totally took me out of the movie rather than adding to it.

I've never liked anything Thom Yorke has done but I loved the score for this movie.

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Interesting, art



I love a lot of Radiohead (even if I make fun of them all of the time) but I couldn't stand this score

Rewatched it again, and I'm still pretty fuzzy on some important things. Was Dakota Johnson a Mother from the start or was she gradually taken over by one through the dance sessions? What was the significance of her tearing her chest apart towards the end (really wish that had been a practical effect, the CGI looked really bad)? Also I'm confused as to why she's very compassionate to the old man at the end, that felt like it came out of nowhere. Overall this film could have been a bit tighter but I still really enjoyed it. I never liked Mia Goth, always though she was a sullen uggo waif with no eyebrows but she cleaned up really nice in this film and I felt pretty bad for her character. That compound fracture scene gave me bad Descent flashbacks.

i believe she was the chosen conduit for the mother of sighs, offering a natural affinity for witchcraft which is why she caught the attention of both blanc and markos. in lore redheads are supposed to make prophetic witches. susie's mother in the film seems to know this much about her daughter so it implies that she was destined for the role. also susie's mother plays/represents death in the final bloodbath so i think its safe to say that susie was born into sacrilege.

i dont have an answer for her tearing her chest apart right now, will have to watch again.

as for susies compassion towards klemperer there is a lot of history, mythology, and folklore at play. this article is pretty good at bringing it all together;

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/suspiria/277231/suspiria-ending-explained

there is a lot of depth and nuance but to put it as simply as possible, Suspiriorum, the mother of sighs, represents the sympathy for and understanding of grief. klemperer represents the state of the patriarchy and mans failures to women, fake-markos and her devotees represent the extremes of female vengeance against these failures and oppression, while blanc and the real mother of sighs represent balance, justice, death (and renewal), compassion etc.

Okay thanks, I was sort of wondering if it was supposed to be a twist that Johnson's character was really Suspiriorum all along and she was just playing everyone including the audience since she's kind of a blank slate throughout, we don't know much about her other than her love of dance and hints at a traumatic childhood. But your explanation makes more sense I guess, but I'm still not clear why Fake-Markos pretended to be her in the first place, seems like a pretty bad plan. Anyway, I would have thought that Mother of Tears would be the one to represent understanding of grief, but yeah... Still processing the movie, and in the end I'm sort of glad that it didn't spell all the details out in clunky exposition. Gonna do a double watch of original Suspiria and Inferno soon, maybe even Mother of Tears if it helps me understand this film better.

i think susie started off and remained rather oblivious to her fate for most of the film and kind of grew into it before she even realized what was going on.

fake-markos just wanted to control the coven, she postured as the mother of sighs to retain influence because she was dying and needed a new body. i think the 3 mothers were the stuff of legend by the time of the film so she preyed on the other witches beliefs and overestimated her own abilities. she probably thought the real mothers were long gone from the earth.

Okay, that seemed really ambiguous. The scene where they are voting for a leader made me assume the Mothers were just the highest ranking witches and that the coven knew to some extent who they were. What do you think was the point of that girl with glasses? She seemed totally pointless other than to show the witches were starting to get out of hand, though I think the scene where they are fucking with the cops displayed that far better.

thats a good question. do you remember who she voted for? i'm thinking perhaps her death served as a warning of some sort that the covens excesses were getting out of hand and a reckoning was coming. if i remember correctly her departure was abruptly triggered during some inner turmoil

as for the mothers i think their legacy is pretty ancient, and in the original films the three of them had started covens in various parts of the world by the present. in the remake that coven is the coven historically started by the mother of sighs but im guessing that their influence is at a status of myth and they are practically religious symbols. fake-markos was a false idol of sorts, and the mother of sighs made it pretty clear that she did not like her followers worshipping such.

"Gonna do a double watch of original Suspiria and Inferno soon, maybe even Mother of Tears if it helps me understand this film better."

also if you havent seen it yet just a warning, mother of tears is fucking terrible lol.

Yeah I heard it's bad, but maybe it'll help me better understand the lore Argento was going for originally cause what we got in the remake wasn't very forthright. As for the girl with glasses, I assumed she committed suicide voluntarily. Since she was quiet and kept to herself, the witches assumed she was rolling with everything, but she actually snapped and couldn't handle what she was involved with (note that the conversation at the table prior to the suicide is reeeeaaaalllly fucked up, I can see why she was traumatized and felt in over her head). On the other hand it's possible that one of the higher witches killed her off because she was a liability like Olga and Chloe Moretz. But the film really didn't take the time to develop those characters which is frustrating because it feels like A LOT of really important shit happened off-screen it seems.

word yeah maybe ill have some different thoughts on that scene upon revisiting, but on my first watch my intuition pointed towards something wonky being up with that death

she looked shell-shocked to me in that scene and in most of the movie. Thousand yard stare and everything.

yeah she was virtually catatonic

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she was the most empathetic witch who sensed who Susie was and understood what was coming so the suicide was voluntary. at least that's my read