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“The Vampire's Kiss” is a very mediocre film in its content and performance, which from a galaxy of hundreds of people clearly highlights only one detail: the main cast, which belongs to the young Nicholas Cage.
The expressiveness with which he plays his role, eccentricity and theatricality, which fills his hero, cannot but attract the gaze of the viewer. His game is simultaneously and utterly exaggerated, even stupid, but at the same time as remarkable as possible against the background of other slow-moving events in the film. That is, the very existence of the hero Cage Peter Low in the surrounding space after a series of strange events and a certain goal that he wants to achieve - that’s what is not so interesting, but funny to watch.
The strange symbiosis of a certain similarity of a thriller and a comedy performed by director Robert Birman was unable to mix together the laughter and anticipation of the inevitably terrible inside the viewer when watching, in which I personally see the merit of two aspects: the previously mentioned Nicolas Cage and an irregular script with broken logic of sequential events. The actions of the protagonist in many moments, where he is even in his mind, do not have a proper explanation and purpose, whereas the general goal is not yet clear. And if it were not for the performance of this role again, then it would be possible to put a cross on trust in the film. In general, I would like to say a little more about trust, because in view of the director’s obvious efforts and his knowledge of correct frame centering and composition, the atmosphere of the 1980s in the Big Apple of our world is so strong that it can absorb the viewer a dozen years. And what are only the initial frames: these multiple teeth of the multi-storey buildings in New York, looking to the skies against the background of the post-industrial landscape that does not stop its life day or night of the city. They tune in to the perception of a strange story, talking about vampires in a modern environment, but already appealing to its design. Whereas the city directly connects this oddity with the mundane, with the mundane. The background music only complements the suite of species with the motives of Bram Stoker.
However, these factors save the film? Definitely not.
This, I repeat, is a mediocre movie, from which the viewer can hardly isolate something memorable and valuable both from an ideological and artistic point of view (except for the moments mentioned above). The film does not have any visible connection with the general social issues or history; it does not argue properly over personal troubles and doubts, when the tangle of pure misunderstanding does not want to unleash inside the head, opposing the formation of a clear mind and sober perception. This story is rather mediocre in its script: a man loses his head from an unusual woman who uses him and then throws him, leaving him to choose between fighting for her and death. This viewer has seen many times and in a variety of interpretations, not only the world surrounding the idea, but also the idea itself. Here it is in the second version, which still does not help the tape to be something more than what it actually is: a rather cheerful, unintended, probably buffoon with a rather sad, but inevitable final in the context of history.
The film has a special value, if you want to carefully consider the actor's play of Nicolas Cage. In the other case: the cinema is a maximum for the evening, in order to laugh a little myself and to get into the surroundings.
P.S. Thanks for attention.
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