Saturday, March 26, 2011

Daybreakers (2009)




"Blood is money." That would be certain conclusion of more than a century of vampire stories. But perhaps this could not have appeared clearly until that red money too became the poor virtual sign of Capitalism. Let us turn the metaphor, vampires are like capitalists now; the drive towards accumulation and consumption is without desire, and it is completely immortal (although the lack of it will transform you into a dry monster). "Life is a bitch, and then you don't die." Daybreakers performs a simple reversal, where humans are the minority and hegemony is given to the consumers of pure significant. An economic film like a few, and besides you have Willem Dafoe with a crossbow.

4 stars.

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