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"The film may not be 100% plot-hole-less (but neither is the Matrix, and many brilliant films), and the concept of Vampires might seem a little far-fetched (read on), but if you bear with the unavoidable facets of a movie dealing with vampires, this film is quite astounding.
Unlike your average vampire movie, this film does not centre on fangs and blood and scary images. Its focus is not on horror at all.
And neither is it on action. There are scenes of high-octane vampiric attacks, but these are plot-climaxes and are well thought out. The main focus of the film, however, is upon character, and upon exploring what it would truly be like to be a vampire.
Furthermore, the film makes many efforts to be realistic: a vampire is not a hideous monster. The religious and Christian undertones are unavoidable, if not intended: Vampires are damned (by God?); they pass on their curse like a virus through their bloodstreams, both malignantly and benevolently. They are humans, with bodies that heal in seconds, who cannot age and cannot die of natural causes: humans with infinitely good immune systems, it might be said. And to live, they must drink blood. That is the curse upon them, and the blessing that comes with it are vampiric powers - some of them more readily available than others.
Louis, the main character played by Brad Pitt, was a depressed man, a man with no purpose left to his life; then he is set upon by a creature he didn't even think existed: a vampire, the vampire Lestat.
And in the eternal life that is born to him, Louis is even more troubled - and now he has eternity to wallow in. He has to live now with what he has become: to live on, he must kill and savagely drink the blood of his victims - Lestat long ago forgot moral consciousness, but being a vampire is torment for Louis.
The film delves deep into Louis' psyche, as he tries to deal with what he has been transformed into. As his relationship with his 'maker' Lestat builds and falls and rebuilds and remains in constant turmoil, he befriends other vampires, and learns more of the history of the secret race he has been born into. They gather in guilds, or walk alone, or walk among humans, disguised, feeding when they can.
The film powerfully deals with the theme of eternity, as the story of Louis' epic vampire life plays out, all told in first-person narrative, as he relates his story-so-far to an Interviewer.
Gripping from start to finish, as characters rise and fall and plots unwind, you will be enamoured at the vampire-world opened up to you, and by the end, you are left wondering what choice you would make, if given the one that Lestat never had..." -- Virgil Ierubino (Aquillyne), imdb.com
The way vampires should be portrayed. This is a great movie, i have never read the book but if it is better then it is off the charts. This movie is for all vampire lovers.
