Day Breakers
Day Breakers failed to fascinate me as the new genre of vampirism. Even though the futuristic modern interior designs and the fancy technologies did not serve as an eye-candy for me. The character development is juvenile and the movie tried too hard to portray the opposite sides of humanity, well, vampirity. Ethan Hawke looks always deflated and the discovery of the cure does not get him excited. Wilem Defoe is stagnant between a revolutionary and a wiseman. The movie is full of cliche and stereotype. The idea is unimaginative and stale.
The only interesting idea is that a single natural mutation of a specie miraculously cures the disease. The blood from the cured is discovered to be used as a vaccine for curing the vampire disease. This "treated" human blood will in turn became more valuable than human blood. It does not bring back humanity, as the movie may suggest. It merely controls the mortality.
This may sound cold: why was it so bad that if the vampires can take over the world and continue the human legacy? Afterall, they originate from human, in fact, from the same person. I would like to call these vampires neo-humans. The minds are still the same, it is just the circumstances changed which for certain will affect the vampire's, neo-human's, perspective on life. Perhaps, it is no good because there will be no "new blood" to the society.
One thing reminds the same is greed driven by the money and power in which the scarcity of the real blood brings. This seems to be a satire for our oil crisis. Human tries everything to harvest our earth's resource until near depletion. Alternatives to the resource are dismissed up until recently.
I was disappointed when the movie displays such technology to keep the human alive for the blood bank, reminding me of the human incubators in Matrix and Brave New World, yet no one can come up with a technology to breed human? It does not make sense to just hunt them, like our ancestors hunting wild boars for dinner, in such modern times. Have they learned enough to farm their food supply? I am not equating human to domestic animals. But the silliness is apparent.
At the end, this movie seems to insinuate the vanity of human that the Nature cannot help but brings us back to life.
I will end this post with an Interesting news about Tasmanian Devils' Cancer.
The only interesting idea is that a single natural mutation of a specie miraculously cures the disease. The blood from the cured is discovered to be used as a vaccine for curing the vampire disease. This "treated" human blood will in turn became more valuable than human blood. It does not bring back humanity, as the movie may suggest. It merely controls the mortality.
This may sound cold: why was it so bad that if the vampires can take over the world and continue the human legacy? Afterall, they originate from human, in fact, from the same person. I would like to call these vampires neo-humans. The minds are still the same, it is just the circumstances changed which for certain will affect the vampire's, neo-human's, perspective on life. Perhaps, it is no good because there will be no "new blood" to the society.
One thing reminds the same is greed driven by the money and power in which the scarcity of the real blood brings. This seems to be a satire for our oil crisis. Human tries everything to harvest our earth's resource until near depletion. Alternatives to the resource are dismissed up until recently.
I was disappointed when the movie displays such technology to keep the human alive for the blood bank, reminding me of the human incubators in Matrix and Brave New World, yet no one can come up with a technology to breed human? It does not make sense to just hunt them, like our ancestors hunting wild boars for dinner, in such modern times. Have they learned enough to farm their food supply? I am not equating human to domestic animals. But the silliness is apparent.
At the end, this movie seems to insinuate the vanity of human that the Nature cannot help but brings us back to life.
I will end this post with an Interesting news about Tasmanian Devils' Cancer.