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The beautiful emancipation of Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) at the end


NOT.

Actually, the movie drives home the dark bondage of converting to witch-dom wherein one becomes a baby-slaughtering, blood-bathing, family-destroying, goat-sucking, friggin’ pedophile hag with the illusion of youth.

For exposition, see this thread: https://moviechat.org/tt4263482/The-VVitch-A-New-England-Folktale/5a73e9fe0d07a60014ca2306/Insights-on-the-movie-SPOILERS

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Seriously, the entire chain of events subsequent to the mother's death seemed more like an act of desperation than what one might call free will. She's not going back to the plantation (either she wouldn't survive the journey or she'd be rejected again). And Black Philip probably has her next on his "to kill" list. So she decides that if she can't beat him, she'll join him. The final scene seemed to represent when her own insanity took hold and manic euphoria set in.

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Good point, but the plantation would've readily taken in a winsome teen girl. Plus they weren't painted as ee-vil religionists and the father & mother left due to some doctrinal/practical disagreement and not because of some earthshattering legalistic abuse or whatever. Besides, anything would be preferable to joining that baby-killing, family-destroying, murderous coven, even if she had to die trying.

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