I went to see the new Jim Jarmusch film "Only Lovers Left Alive" at the Chez Artiste Theater here in Denver last weekend and really enjoyed it. The movie takes place in both Detroit and Tangiers (I think they are sister cities) and chronicles the lives of a hip vampire couple. The movie deals with some very important social issues. The vampire couple get their blood under the table from hospitals and doctors, not through sucking the blood of victims ("that is sooo 15th century"), but at the end of the movie - SPOILER ALERT! - they are forced to go back to the old ways when their source for blood passes away. This just isn't right. The people they bite are turned into vampires themselves, exasperating the major vampire problem we have in this country today (if the current flood of vampire movies and television show are any indication). And just why doesn't Obamacare cover this is what I want to know. In any case, the cinematography was great. After seeing this film, it makes me want to move to Detroit immediately. Talk about an undiscovered treasure!
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