Spoilers, obviously ... Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is a horrid, rancid, gorgeous sympathy-for-the-monster movie. A young girl, Ellen, experiencing deep, agonizing loneliness, prays to a spirit for relief. She experiences a union with the unknown spirit that is at first blissful, and then becomes torture. Years later she believes she'

Avoidance as a symptom of an alienated, repressed cultural moment. Right now, enormous amounts of people are surviving; life as a minefield of "shoulds." Should I do this or that? Talk to this person or that person first? Who will get more mad at me? What can I