In "Only Lovers Left Alive", vampires are literary and artistic geniuses who have been alone for thousands of years. The long life journey gives them the opportunity to learn more. Music, literature, and everything related to art have become a means of dispelling loneliness. Therefore, the whole film is also very much like the young literary and artistic youth dropping their book bags. At the same time, Jamuxu’s unique cold humor makes the story more like the literary version of "That Man Comes from Earth". The film is dull but elegant. Even drinking blood requires a delicate cup, with a bit of aristocracy ().
The movie geek, Jia Muxu, chose "vampire" as a subject that was too much to be filmed this time, but through his unique cold humor, he used a large number of staggering literary, artistic, and historical allusions to show a couple. The modern life of vampire lovers for hundreds of years. His vampire is full of glamorous and alienated temperament, which is different because of melancholy and alienation ().
"Only Lovers Left Alive" is not so much a movie as it is a rebellion against Western literature and music, but the main body of the talk uses the most fashionable and attractive vampire image in Western culture. As an audience who has requirements for dramas and images, the film seems to stop prematurely at the level of gagging. The author's deconstruction and distorted criticism of Western civilization only stays at the level of cross talk between the two people, and has not implemented the level of drama and character development. The film is still quite successful in terms of visuals. The lighting effects of several scenes are reminiscent of the experimental images of American artist Gregory Crewdson, especially in the deserted city of Detroit. The city lights in the dark corners with a sense of surrealism are lonely and silent. Guilt ().
