(In fact, I just wanted to write a short review, but the result was too many words. What to write about what I thought about it)
After watching Dousen’s interview, I found that he is really suitable for this movie. He is comfortable and elegant in his gestures, and he frequently writes words in words. He is a well-mannered man. He understood very deeply, this is indeed a story about a pair of lovers, but with a special identity. The focus is on "lovers" rather than "vampires." There are no common vampire works in the film that emphasize the strong, bloodthirsty, immortal, and later beauty, affectionate characteristics of vampires. Jamusch’s vampires are just like ordinary people. What makes this pair of vampires different from humans is their longevity and different quality of life from humans for decades. Their difference lies in spirit. It's not so much a vampire, it's a sublimated human. Maybe Jamusch is looking for an ideal life state, pursuing a purely artistic life. But the reality is difficult to achieve. The ideal life can only be placed on two vampires in the movie: they will never grow old and die, they can endlessly pursue the things they love, and go beyond the secular to directly pursue the upper-level illusions: literature, philosophy, music, Art...These are the most beautiful, a huge spiritual culture beyond the length of individual human life. An example is the hidden writer who turns into a vampire in the movie. The soundtrack is a surprise, Jamush’s own band music, psychedelic rock and industrial rock, it’s great! It can better reflect the director’s temperament: life is infinite, purposeless...
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