"Suspiria"
Dario Argento
When we think about a witch, most people think of it as a female figure in black with a witch hat and a broom, but Suspiria depicts a completely different witch. The witch in the movie isn’t like the witch from fairy tales, but rather like a witch people believed during the time period of witchcraft.
There was a part in the movie where Suzy, the protagonist, asks a psychologist, Frank, what are witches, he replied with "a believer in the material world and a psychiatrist to boot, I’m convinced that the current spread of belief in magic and the occult is part of mental illness. Bad luck isn’t brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds.” This quote indicates that witches are based off people’s belief of evil. It’s rather a kind of belief where people practices on black magic. Professor Milius also replied to Suzy saying that witches are “malefic, negative, and destructive” which indicates that witches are all about the negative energy.
There is a moment where in the movie there is something spiritual about the witch that this movie may also fall under the category of ‘supernatural’ which I found very interesting since I never really thought of witches in a supernatural way. I’ve only thought of witches to be from a fantasy or from folk tales, but never something to do with spirits or the dead. It was quite an experience watching this film to understand a different aspect of the term ‘witches’.
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