Ginger Snaps 4K 2000

This film is unlike any other werewolf movie. There are no special effects, no computer-generated imagery, and none of the scale or commercial grandeur one might expect from the fantasy genre. In fact, it isn’t really a fantasy film at all. Paradoxically, the film *The Werewolf* is one of the most human films.

It is a film for people and about people. Through the lives of two schoolgirls, we are told a story typical of many people. The typical, average life of an ordinary person. A small town, gray and boring, with people who are unremarkable and blend into the background. Ordinary teenagers, the most ordinary parties and hangouts of girls and boys who don’t know what else to do with themselves.

It’s amazing how the director managed to create such an atmosphere—an atmosphere of boredom, joylessness, and utterly animalistic alienation. Animalistic, precisely, because the term “werewolf” here represents the distorted essence of a human being, reaching its climax and bursting forth.

Alienation is evident in everything here—people don’t care about one another, there is no family as such—an infantile, self-absorbed mother who has no idea what is going on in her daughters’ lives; and her daughters, living like wild animals, all on their own. Even their room—dark and uninviting, hung with melancholic posters and inscriptions—testifies to their inhuman loneliness within their own family and their own city.

All the terrible and horrific things that happen in the film are, in reality, merely a shell, a metaphor; they are simply a way to convey this terrible truth to us. After all, this is exactly what happens all too often when relationships among people cease to be human, lowering the bar to a level unworthy of the word “human.”

This film doesn’t show us how things “should be,” but we can read between the lines and draw our own conclusions about what love, family, and friendship should be like, and how we should treat those close to us. It serves as a reminder of how important it is, no matter what, to remain human.