We open on a kid named Arash claiming he's worked a lot of days in his life to obtain the car he has, and cannot help out a begging child. This film quickly turns to having an omniscient view over a few sets of characters such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights or Magnolia.
The main focus is on Arash, a drug dealer who takes Arash's car, and the woman who is actually a vampire. Even though the drug dealer is not a likable character, we fear for him since he is the first victim of the vampire, and her stalking him introduces us to the suspense we feel for a majority of the film.
The vampire isn't someone to be totally frightened of, however. She seems to pick her victims carefully, sparing the innocent like the kid she frightens in order to teach a lesson and Arash who is very kind to her after getting lost in the streets after taking a little ecstasy.
One part of the setting I didn't really get was this gutter where many bodies were piled up and nobody seemed to do anything about this. In fact, the drug dealer's body is dumped there and nobody can tell the difference with all of the other bodies there. Is there no police in this town?
Towards the end of the film Arash is able to discern that this girl he has fallen in love with is the person who killed his father, and so we are waiting for him to come back into a frame with a weapon after making a pit stop in the middle of the road with the woman in his car. Instead, he pops back into frame just looking at her, gets in the car, and after they stare intensely at one another, drive off into the distance. We are left with the feeling that they both know the truth, but their love for each other conquers all.
This film is incredibly well-shot, and it is suspenseful but not "scary." I love the black and white in this film - haven't seen a black and white vampire movie other than Dracula. Overall some points seem slow, the gutter of bodies doesn't really add up, but this is a good piece of art.
The main focus is on Arash, a drug dealer who takes Arash's car, and the woman who is actually a vampire. Even though the drug dealer is not a likable character, we fear for him since he is the first victim of the vampire, and her stalking him introduces us to the suspense we feel for a majority of the film.
The vampire isn't someone to be totally frightened of, however. She seems to pick her victims carefully, sparing the innocent like the kid she frightens in order to teach a lesson and Arash who is very kind to her after getting lost in the streets after taking a little ecstasy.
One part of the setting I didn't really get was this gutter where many bodies were piled up and nobody seemed to do anything about this. In fact, the drug dealer's body is dumped there and nobody can tell the difference with all of the other bodies there. Is there no police in this town?
Towards the end of the film Arash is able to discern that this girl he has fallen in love with is the person who killed his father, and so we are waiting for him to come back into a frame with a weapon after making a pit stop in the middle of the road with the woman in his car. Instead, he pops back into frame just looking at her, gets in the car, and after they stare intensely at one another, drive off into the distance. We are left with the feeling that they both know the truth, but their love for each other conquers all.
This film is incredibly well-shot, and it is suspenseful but not "scary." I love the black and white in this film - haven't seen a black and white vampire movie other than Dracula. Overall some points seem slow, the gutter of bodies doesn't really add up, but this is a good piece of art.