The legend of vampires has profound religious origins and historical backgrounds. It is said that the prototype of vampires was born out of Christianity. One said it came from Cain who killed Christ, another said it came from Judas who betrayed Jesus. Heretic forces such as loneliness, desire, and evil are inseparable. Since the beginning of Dracula, vampires have been shaped as creatures with superhuman abilities and terrifying images, and because of their similar appearance to humans, they have become a mirror for humans to look at themselves, magnifying the "different" in human nature. quality".
The enduring image of vampires in film history has evolved to be quite modern today. "Interview with the Vampire" in the 1990s made a sensational move to bring the wild image of vampires to modern civilization. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt Transform a once feared demon into an elegant aristocrat. The vampire images in "Twilight", "The Vampire Diaries" and other film and television works are closer to superheroes. Their lives are no longer claustrophobic and alienated. Instead, they use supernatural abilities to establish and maintain lofty moral standards. The appearance becomes the protector and desire projection of human beings.
However, the free and immortal characteristics of the vampire image make it difficult for the film to escape the philosophical proposition of "life and death", just as the vampire's immortality ability in "Interview with the Vampire" has become a siege of imprisonment, making Claudia unable to have a mature body, and also Let the world become a grave in Louis' eyes. Immortality seems to deprive them of the value of their lives.
"Only Love Lives Forever" does the opposite, depriving vampires of their common advantages in modern movies: family entanglement, power, teleportation... They can only spend the night in abandoned cities, under the threat of blood pollution Survive in. But they are endowed with a sense of life after a long period of time, and they clearly see that the noble and beautiful things are stained by the life of human beings walking dead, and they absorb the nourishment of beauty in the world of literature and music. The noble and beautiful things are like blood. Their survival necessities are also luxury goods, completing the redemption of their thousand years of life. From Shakespeare to Aristotle, Adam and Eve looked at the world with cold eyes like urban elites. They would ridicule mankind that they were still at war for oil, but they could not warn in advance of the shortage of water, but at the same time they could not resist the tactful words of street women. singing. They stay awake, but never indifferent.
If love can go through a thousand years, it should be what it looks like in the movie. Adam and Eve did not live together all the time. They each had their own advantages and were leaders in the circle. They were not alienated from each other, but they admired and respected each other. To Adam, Eve is more like the pot of green plants in "Leon the Killer" to Leon, and it becomes a bridge connecting them with their emotions towards the world. Eve's sister shows us the tediousness of ordinary families, and the attitude of tolerance but not accommodating is worthy of a wise man. They took three wedding photos, and people believe that time will transform love into family like a potion. This film may propose a different possibility.
The old castle in the classic vampire movie is replaced by a blurred city. When Adam and Eve are sitting in a bar wearing black sunglasses, they are outliers observing social changes. Men and women of all shapes and sizes dance in the dim light, and only their love lives forever.
It is always said that the beauty of love lies in the variables. Math teachers say it's often easier to find answers in extreme conditions. If love is given unlimited time, perhaps people will seek spiritual resonance in a more independent individual space, get rid of the tedious details of life, and re-understand this free and deep emotional relationship without relying on blood.
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