The night here does not belong to human beings. Two strange and immortal races have staged a dark war that has lasted for thousands of years.
Fans who are obsessed with the theme of "vampire" will find that this "Underworld" is different from previous vampire movies after just a few minutes of watching.
She does not only have the hatred and fighting between humans and vampires in traditional vampire films; she does not only have the entanglement and love between humans and vampires like
"Twilight";
...
On the contrary, she integrates all of the above, and in the "Vampire World" recreated by director Len Wiseman, it centers on the contradiction between the millennium war between werewolves and vampires, and tells a blurred and treacherous legendary story.
So, what's special about this movie?
First, the vampire's direct opponent is no longer a human, but a werewolf. The core contradiction of traditional vampire movies is the struggle between weak humans and powerful vampires. Vampires are often portrayed as devil Satan, and if humans want to defeat vampires, they must rely on the power of God (the cross) to complete the mission of slaying demons and eliminating demons. , so the film is often Christian. Although "Twilight" has added werewolf scenes, the love between vampires and humans is the main line. "Underworld" completely takes the contradiction between vampires and werewolves as the main line, and human beings are completely reduced to supporting roles, only to foil the background of the immortality of the two major groups.
Secondly, the contradiction between werewolf and vampire has a new interpretation. At first, the fully-armed vampires used modern weapons and equipment to completely overwhelm the gangster-like werewolf, but Lucien, the werewolf leader played by Mike Sheen, is always seeking the evolution of the group, in order to gain strength in genetic reorganization. . Blood became the only way to record the memories of werewolves and vampires, so through blood, human Michael learned that the conflict between the two groups originally started in an incident a thousand years ago - the werewolf Lucien, who was originally a slave, fell in love with his master vampire daughter, and Out of personal and rank considerations, the father executed his daughter in full view, which made the wolf king Lucien have a grudge with vampires. The contradiction between race and class were intertwined. At first, the image of the werewolf was savage and full of gangsters. The human Michael finally stood on the opposite side of the vampire and worked together to deal with the vampire elders.
Third, the emphasis on genes makes the subject matter full of scientific sense. The religious sense of traditional vampire movies has been mentioned above, but Underworld brings "science" to the film. The weapons of the vampires in the film are no longer fangs and claws, but pistols and swords; in order to improve the population, the werewolves used genetic technology-by looking for the blood of the human Michael with special genes, to improve the giants of the werewolf's physique. magnitude increase. Human Michael finally obtained the dual genes of vampire and werewolf and became the most powerful "new human", which makes people think of the futuristic sense of genetic recombination at the current level of technology. Therefore, technology makes the nature of the film more inclined to an action film rather than a horror film, and the story is full of "futuristic".
At the end of the film, I don't feel that it is exciting enough. The two major races who should be fierce and fierce, fight, there is nothing new in the fight. The heroine kills the vampire boss just with a Japanese-style slashing hastily.
But fortunately, there are still lingering thoughts at the end of the film, paving the way for the sequel. So what will be the rest of the story, and how should it be evaluated?
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