Against my own better judgement, I went to the saturday yoga class yesterday, but luckily Maria had come on her own. We talked, she apologized, I said that I wasn't angry with
her, she told me that Josie wasn't really like that and she didn't know where it all came from and so on and so on. She's lovely, Maria, but I really think I'm going to switch to the Wednesday class, that was all kinds of awkward. Plus it's not fair that she feels like she has to go on her own because I'm there.
Anyway >.<
On Friday I went to see Daybreakers with Dan, and may I just say, films about golden eyed vampires called Edward who don't like drinking human blood? They did it right :D
It was basically Dead Set only with vampires instead of zombies, but it was
brillliiiiaaaant. There was maximum gore with minimal dull romantic sideplots, vampires who died in the sun and when staked through the heart, decapitation, projectile vomit, dismemberment, betrayal, heavy death tolls. I... was so happy <3
It was more sci fi than horror, it was basically about a whole society of vampires (who'd been turned by a large scale epidemic that started with one bat. Oh bats, I have missed you <3 <3) where the supply of human blood is running out. All the remaining humans are either fugitives or in these blood farms (very much battery more than free range. This upsets some vampires who feel a bit shit for treating the humans like blood balloons). Vampires who don't drink human blood turn into these mutated bat-like uber-vampires called "sub siders" with no higher brain functions that attack other vampires, which is clearly not kosher, and the government adopts a zero tolerance policy of killing them on sight. The problem is that in less than a month the entire population will end up like that, unless more blood or synthetic blood is discovered.
What I liked most about this film is that it showed both the glamorous side of vampirism and the monstrous side. Increasingly, we only get to see one side or the other, and it's usually the glamorous sexy immortal side. Vampires exist in fiction to show the dark side of humanity, without that dark side then it's just Peter Pan in black tights instead of green.