Vampire Hunter D is a tornado-like movie, from cold weapons to hot weapons, from cyborgs to vampires, from the Middle Ages to the cosmic century, from feuds to male and female feuds, from underground monsters to wall-piercing ghosts, from mysterious magic to murderous darts.
If you want to sum up this film in four words, it is "too many elements", so you will be surprised that this film can be as light and elegant as Hunter D in the film, but it can hit the soul.
"In the distant future, vampires rule the night, but their numbers are gradually decreasing..."
There are so many mysteries in the movie that you can't explain why an old man who is repairing machinery would raise a black red-eyed horse, perhaps because he remembered that a hunter on a black horse saved him or a child?
It's hard to explain why D, in a world with guns, insists on slaying enemies with a sword in his hand, insists on riding a horse when he doesn't have a car, and walks in the desert in a hot day wearing a leather jacket that looks hot.
He has a face in his hand that speaks, and unlike the handsome little-spoken D, who speaks more than Deadpool, he is tasked with adjusting the atmosphere when D is walking alone, because the audience may not be able to bear D's speechlessness.
In addition, in the garden at the beginning, the family that could give bounty hunters a high commission seemed to be very rich, but they could only afford to hire two teams of hunters (that is, the Max brothers and D) to save their family's kidnapped thousands of gold.
They even live in a tattered courtyard. Of course, this does highlight a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, and a clearer view of D's indifference to those who aim their guns at him.
And when Camilla, a female vampire who lives in a castle later in the plot, says that there used to be a spaceship in every such castle, the world covered by the film is even more vast and evocative.
Through this incident, let us know that there was a glorious era of vampires in the past, they did not have to be trapped with humans, and they could fly into space and throw themselves into the boundless.
But one thing that keeps this work of too many elements and containing intractable mysteries from scattering is the disappearance of Qianjin, which begins with the suspense that comes out shortly after: "Is this a kidnapping or an elopement?" If it's a kidnapping, kill the kidnapper, Meyer, but if it's an elopement, it's a break-up of the lover.
But can vampires love people?
D, as a half-race, does not believe it, and his knowledge of vampires leads him to the conclusion that all vampires should be killed. He hunted vampires not just for bounties, but for his faith.
Vampires are selfish creatures who don't know how to love. It also contains his denial of his own existence, that he was not born out of love, perhaps by accident.
This accident cursed him, making him never a member of the human race, no matter how many vampires he hunted, his miserable white skin and pointed ears would betray him, perhaps that was why he wrapped himself tightly at all times.
Layla, the Avenger of the Max Brothers, certainly does not believe that her family has been killed by vampires, her mother has been turned into a vampire, and she was killed in front of her after returning to the village, and she has seen too many examples of vampires killing humans after joining the Max Brothers Hunting Group.
What does an infected vampire look like? The cemetery scene in the movie already tells us that they can't control their desires, they can't just bite people, and they seem to have to suck people dry, which may explain the extinction of vampires.
As the vampires of true moral character and "restraint" gradually die, the remaining vampires either starve to death or are killed. Maybe they don't have the ability to reproduce because they don't know how to love, what is the relationship between love and reproduction? Love allows parents to give selflessly to the offspring that they have reproduced, and even lose their own lives instead of plundering them.
Humans do not believe that vampires know love and send someone to hunt down Andyer, while Camilla, the vampire who is the owner of the Red Castle, thinks she knows love, claims to love D's father, but finally kills D's father with her.
She regards human beings as domestic animals, so she cannot recognize the love between vampires and people, but only wants to use the blood of Qianjin to resurrect herself, so she does not even hesitate to attack the protector and lover of Qianjin, Maier, who is also a vampire. This in turn shows that vampires may not even have the love of their fellow citizens, and they can do anything for the sake of human blood.
But how does this explain That Meyer was able to withstand the burning of the sun just to save his lover? Or is it the death of restraining the delicious blood in the neck of the lover and taking the tusks back?
The film looks at the vampire and human companions through the perspective of D and Layla, two lonely people, and at first they are hard to believe, but seeing the selfless acts that happen to them later, they are all convinced that vampires can also know how to love, not just to plunder and possess.
They are all changed, D releases Maier to life so that he can take the corpse of a thousand gold to the universe, while Layla is liberated from her endless hatred of the vampire, watching the space shuttle carrying The body of Meyer and the golden body break through the castle and fly into the sky, she prays that it will successfully fly up instead of crashing.
There is a beautiful cut at the end of the movie, we thought that the funeral that D went back to attend was the funeral that was taken away at the beginning, because the movie mentioned that D would bring the ring back for her family to bury, but when we saw the little girl who looked like Layla, we found out that it had been decades, and this was the funeral of Layla who became a grandmother, her offspring were all by her side, she did not die alone, but had her family with her.
D, who had agreed with Layla that the one who died later on both sides would come to the other's grave to fulfill his promise, and the smile on the corner of his mouth that looked at him from a distance explained the small redemption he had experienced during the long journey, but his journey would continue, he was neither a vampire nor a human, but an eternal observer of vampires and humans until the end of the world.
The delicacy and lightness of Vampire Hunter D make it worth viewing as a work of art, but at the same time, its interrogation of the nature of love is simple and simple, love is to let others be free rather than possessive.
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