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the wicker man analysis(?) I don't pretend to be a film critic or anything, although I do have a taste for [obscure][1] or [avant][2]-[garde][3] films as long as I can get meaning out of it. To get to the point, I just watched *The Wicker Man*, which a very peculiar film because it *feels* like it should have some deeper meanings and themes, like [*Suspira* (2018)][4] or [*The Lighthouse*][5], and yet I can't manage to pull anything out of it. It has Christian and Celtic <del>pagan</del> heathen symbols, but I can't manage to figure out what they represent, unlike in many other films where those have a deeper meaning connected with the rest of the themes and plot. I was hoping to have more to say, but this post is obviously going to be short because the whole point of it is that I can't really say anything else about it other than: 1) it's really frustrating that I can't pull any deeper meaning or themes from it even though it feels like I should be able to; and 2) this actually is a really good horror film, and I still wholeheartedly recommend it. It feels like *The Exorcist*, kind of, maybe it's that they were both made in 1973 and they are both religious themed. On an unrelated note, I plan on writing an analysis of *The Lighthouse* sometime, because it's an excellent, excellent film, I just have to watch it again first. [1]: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/341687-waves-98 [2]: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8327-the-holy-mountain [3]: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4960-synecdoche-new-york [4]: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/361292-suspiria [5]: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/503919-the-lighthouse tags: analysis, miscellaneous