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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
★ 7.4 · 6,394 ratings on TMDB
Drink from me and live forever.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
DirectorNeil Jordan
The emergence reading
In Interview with the Vampire, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “vampire aristocracy”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing immortality, morality, loss, identity, otherness.
↷ the deadUSimmortalitymoralitylossidentityotherness
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Byzantium (2013)consciousness in the dead · vampire underworld
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)consciousness in the dead · vampire society
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · spirit bathhouse
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · reanimated monster comedy
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Vampires (1998)consciousness in the dead · undead huntSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · identity, otherness
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)consciousness in animals · identity, otherness
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · identity, immortality
The Smurfs (2011)consciousness in monsters · identity, otherness
Pinocchio (1940)consciousness in objects · identity, morality
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)consciousness in aliens · identity, otherness
