Sunday, September 19, 2010

Daybreakers Reviewed

By Floyd Middleton

There has been a considerable push in recent years for vampire media in different modes to be brought to light, no pun intended. The interesting thing, is that this might be the most frenzied people have ever been about vampire stories and programming. While this is all the case, it had become difficult for storytellers to give us something new and unique that was unlike something that was heard before. The film "Daybreakers" was able to do this.

The interesting thing about this particular film, is that it was able to not only stay true to mythology surrounding vampires, but how very unique the story is to watch even with it being true to form with mythology. By reading through this particular piece, you will get a good look at why this film is different and several paragraphs to give you key plot points.

You should learn what makes this particular film unique in its own right first before it breaks into any plot synopsis. The reason this film is unique, is that it takes a perspective of humans being the minority in a world that has been overtaken by vampires. When vampires bite humans and they don't die, they become vampires as well. Several years of doing this has made the human race as we know it relatively extinct.

You should be aware that if you have not seen the film yet, and plan to, that this particular plot synopsis might give you a little bit more about the film than you might have cared to know preliminarily. However, if you don't really care either way, than allow me to give you some of the key plot points. The film opens with the knowledge that the world is 95 percent vampire now. They are trying to farm human blood, but are running out of humans. A team is working to create synthetic blood to sustain the population.

Ethan Hawke is Edward Dalton, a man who is in charge of seeing that a synthetic form of blood is created to sustain the population of vampires. If he cannot come up with a solution such as this, than millions of vampires could die of starvation, which is grotesque and painful to say the very least.

A chance meeting with a group of humans has left Dalton in an awkward position. For helping the humans, he could end up in quite a good bit of trouble. Willem DaFoe portrays one of the humans, that you later learn used to be a vampire. He is technically the leader of the group and he retells the events of how he managed to turn human again from having been a vampire.

Having been inspired by this possibility, Edward takes it upon himself with the help of Cormac to return to being human again himself. Through exposure to the sunlight, long enough to almost cause death, the heart is shocked back into functionality.

"Daybreakers" reaches its climax as Edward Dalton is to have another encounter with his former boss, Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). By this point, the audience has learned that humans who used to be vampires have different blood. This blood will turn a vampire back into being a human as well. So for every vampire that attempts to feed on one of these humans, also becomes a human capable of turning other vampires. - 40727

About the Author:

No comments:

Post a Comment