The company of wolves is one of my favourite films, which I would watch late at night when I was about 15 on a very battered video when I had taped it off the TV. I never even knew it was based on a short story until I started reading the novels by Angela Carter - there is a short story of the same name in The Bloody Chamber and other stories in the book are also twists and takes on the traditonal faerie tale.
Comany is full of symbolism. When I watched it with friends they thought it was supposed to be scary but it is so much more than the traditional werewolf film. There are themes throughout the film about loss of innocence and virginity and growing into a woman - the wolves crashing through Rosaleens window at the end shows that she has finally grown up, excaped childhood and dress up and dolls and tasted what it is to be a woman.
My favourite part of the movie is where the she-wolf crawls out of the well. (That was Danielle Dax, the goth singer in the 80's). It shows that even the wolves are capable of love and hurt and loyalty, even if they belong to a darker realm of being (kind of like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, hee hee hee.)
I could waffle about this film all day! Have you read any of Angela Carter's novels? I highly recommend "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop".:)
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Date: 2007-09-14 11:43 pm (UTC)Comany is full of symbolism. When I watched it with friends they thought it was supposed to be scary but it is so much more than the traditional werewolf film. There are themes throughout the film about loss of innocence and virginity and growing into a woman - the wolves crashing through Rosaleens window at the end shows that she has finally grown up, excaped childhood and dress up and dolls and tasted what it is to be a woman.
My favourite part of the movie is where the she-wolf crawls out of the well. (That was Danielle Dax, the goth singer in the 80's). It shows that even the wolves are capable of love and hurt and loyalty, even if they belong to a darker realm of being (kind of like the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, hee hee hee.)
I could waffle about this film all day! Have you read any of Angela Carter's novels? I highly recommend "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop".:)