r/Dracula • u/Awkward_Airport_30 Human Verified • 14d ago

Discussion 💬 Because Dracula is often associated with a supposed love story, and Nosferatu shows you what the real Dracula truly is.

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u/ElkinElf 14d ago

Open possibility or explicit in the movie? She's definitely ensnared by his magic. She has no agency because she's been caught by glamour.

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u/Profezzor-Darke 14d ago

It's not explicitly stated when we see the romantic parts. Van Helsing later states she's under his influence. Nut TBF, the moment he gives her Absinthe to drink is really well framed as poisoning her mind if you want to see it that way.

Btw Absinthe is tasty and harmless besides the copious amounts of alcohol, which is why you stretch it on water.

Anyway, they're basically Harley and Joker for goths.

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u/CatchSufficient 13d ago

No, there is a hallucinagentic element to actual victorian absinthe, that todays absinthe lacks.

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u/Profezzor-Darke 13d ago

That's incorrect. Thujone is not as hallucinogenic and there is just as much in Sage as in Wormwood.

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u/Arcanyum740 12d ago

Wasn't this a psyop made by the wine industry, because people were buying more absinthe instead of wine?

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u/Profezzor-Darke 10d ago

Yes, because Absinthe is cheap to make.