The year 2010 has just begun the first vampire movie already landed on the screens. Twisted, bloody and even socially engaged, "Daybreakers" appears to bite the competition. Entertainment sometimes barbaric but still attractive.
In the near future, vampires rule over the Earth, raising human beings like cows to drink their blood. When reserves are running out, tests should be performed on survivors of the old dominant race. Despite its top rank, Edward (Ethan Hawke) sympathizes with the fugitives, regretting that his heart doesn't beat as before. Through a series of events, he ends up helping the minority human alliance with Elvis (Willem Dafoe) who would find an antidote to transform all vampires in normal individuals.
A film like "Daybreakers" is savored in different ways. Those seeking thrills who have already seen "Avatar" dozens of times will find a similar story but funny, rhythmic, whose lack of originality of the premise is offset by spectacular gory scenes and other more deadly. As they have done on their previous and already troubling "Undead", the Australian duo of directors, consisting of Michael and Peter Spierig, it gives heart to joy, ripping off arms and heads, giving them staging of a gothic atmosphere, asking their players (which also includes Sam Neill in dark ugly) of delirium without taking himself too seriously.
The filmmakers are not content merely to offer a simple guilty pleasure. They gild the pill, the grounding in social reality, a bit like George A. Romero to another era. It is so easy to replace the blood with oil or water. From the beginning, the tone is started by homeless people who literally die of thirst. That humanity is headed by vampires or humans, the result remains the same: man is a fool who spends his time killing his fellow men. Some sequences remind us even more introspective some historical massacres of the last millennium. In the presence of Ethan Hawke (who spends his time smoking like in old movies black Americans), it is also difficult not to mention the brilliant "Gattaca" by Andrew Niccol. The quest for normality of every moment in a society that tolerates no difference.
"Daybreakers" would of course have been more profound moments and detonate simplifying unnecessarily issues (like the final happens without warning). These drawbacks are minor, however at what could have another blockbuster being empty of meaning that exists only to show the king dollar. Instead, it is a less conventional entertainment than expected, including hemoglobin paid is offset by a certain moral depth. And to reach the female audience, the vampire hero Edward called same as in a "Twilight"!
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