Comment on How do Vampires know they are immortal without first living forever?
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoIn “The Addiction” there’s this old vampire named “Pana”. He’s pretty weird. Talks about the nature of suffering.
Says he can actually diet. Takes longer for a vampire to lose weight tho.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t really get that movie. It’s a metaphor for addiction, obviously, but are people being transformed into vampires as a metaphor for humanity’s infinite propensity for greed and its self perpetuating cycle of violence? Is it a literal metaphor for drug addiction, where people are hollowed out? Is it meant to portray the desire for continued existence as, itself, an addiction? Never took philosophy, so I’m probably missing context.
DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I think they refer to addiction to a specific kind of action or mode of existence.
I can’t think if a name for it but it’s what nazis, atrocity-doers, vampires and mass murderers are doing.
A total indulgence in domination. A total taking from the world. A total divorce from humanity. To lean totally into monsterhood.
Apparently it’s empowering, ecstatic and awful.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That is… difficult to conceptualize. And made even more difficult to interpret when the party is consumed. Not a bad movie in the least, but a difficult one.