Friday, July 24, 2015

What We Do in the Shadows

New Zealand

Consistently clever, creative post-modern take on the vampire meme. These film ideas have been in the air so long now their existence is taken for granted and can now be parodied at will. Last year Jim Jarmusch used jaded ennui as a device in his wonderful Only Lovers Left Alive; here vamps and their practices are used for broad humor.

Like superheroes and UFOs/aliens, slack-jawed moviegoers believe this nonsense is real enough that they 'know' the characteristics of dead people who live on human blood. I suppose this is harmless entertainment but I wonder about the effect of large numbers of the populace believing silly lies: does it make the equally nonsensical corporate propaganda easier to push? Who knows?

This film succeeded on its own terms.

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