Sympathy For The Devil

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2009)

When my friend offered me to watch "Interview With The Vampire", I had no any basic idea about how the plot could be or which actors to be involved in this project. 15 years passed on this film and in the beginning when I saw the names, I was surprised. Because in those days Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas or Kirsten Dunst were not well-known. But there were some great actors (famous in those days) like William Slater and Tom Cruise. Thus, I can say that cast is very strong; indeed less experienced.
As the title reveals, the movie is about an interview of a vampire. The interview is about the biography of Louis the Vampire who had suffered of taking lives, searched for the existence of vampires and lost all of his humanity by proceeding every obligations of being a vampire. I do not want to spoiler but simply the movie consists of the themes that are mentioned above.
About the character of Louis, he is a vampire but not prefer to be monstrous just like the other vampires. In his first times of being a vampire, he really tries to stay away from the humans and confines himself with rats and birds and chickens. This shows that although Louis becomes a vampire, he could pretend to continue his life as a human by not killing other humans. However, it doesn't last for a long time. He loses his humanity as time goes by. And the scene where Louis converts Madeleine to a vampire is the time Louis loses all his humanity according to him.
The main conflict in the movie is "choice of being a vampire or get killed by a vampire". Lestat (Tom Cruise) states several times that the vampire that bites him doesn't give him chance to choose his future. And Lestat just makes Claudia a vampire without giving her opportunity to select her future. On the other, again Lestat allows Louis to choose his future and so does Louis to Madeleine.
Throughout the story, the directer underscores the existence of the God and the Devil. And the result according to this film and perhaps to the book, there is no God nor Devil existing. However, the final song "Sympathy For The Devil" of Rolling Stones performed by Guns 'n Roses is totally contradictory to "unexistency of the god and the devil". The only mistake in this movie is selection of the closure. Otherwise, it is a masterpiece of Anne Rice.