Only Lovers Left Alive

The Only Lovers Left Alive is one of thee best films I have seen in a while. Its not one of those action packed, climaxed movies. Only Lovers Left Alive is more of A slice of life film --about vampires. The kind of films where it feels like a reality show but it isn’t. Its like they chose this couple and picked one random part of their lives and started filming. At one point you even forget they are vampires, but are regular people with a minor drug habit, and that habit being blood. But that isn’t to mean that vampirism didn’t shape their lives and feelings.

 We have Adam, Tom Hiddleston character who is a dark,reclusive misanthropist who makes amazing music (wait til you check out that OLLA soundtrack) and has written anonymously popular music through out the centuries. The more and more he lives the more he becomes disappointed with the world. He lives in this fierce dilapidated mansion in old Detroit. His place is filed with electronic antiques like old guitars, old sound systems. Adam even uses a webcam through a 1980s phone, 1950s tv set and 1990s laptop (yes it took a 3 tier system to make that happen). 

Then there is Eve, living in Tangier,Africa whose place looks like Arabic influenced chateau filled to the brim with books in various languages. She has been around 3,000 years and is much more optimistic with the world because she has seen human nature as well as nature repeat the same pattern over and over. The chemistry between Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston is remarkable and hypnotizing. Then there is the music which is a big factor in loving this film, it gives an atmospheric feel as if you are there in another world at the place they want you to be. Then the visuals of the dark black hues, pinks, and blood red colors is an eyegasm. The combination of visuals, music, and flawless acting gives you a sensory overload of orgasmic bliss for two hours.