Interview With The Vampire (aka "Claudia's Two Dads")

Rating: 6/10 (20 August 2010)

(Question) How can you top a homo-erotic--pedophilia--vampire--melodrama?
(Answer) You can't.
But not because it's so good. And not because it's so bad, either.
You can't top it because it emanates from a place all its own. There's no nicely paved road on which to attempt to ascend its pinnacle. It depicts pure evil. But not a Hitler sort of evil. The most human sort of evil.
Halfway through what seemed like a 10 hour movie I found myself asking the question: Why am I still watching this? "Locked together in hatred", says Claudia to Louis. That pretty much sums up my relationship with this film. The perverse intimate details portrayed by this film were so primordial that it was as if they should not be shown or seen. Yet once I started watching I simply could not stop.
Interview With The Vampire is not the predigested teeniebopper Buffy The Vampire Slayer fare. Or even True Blood. It penetrates levels of consciousness in spite of some rather poor performances by both Pitt and Cruise. It's almost as if their presence doesn't even matter -- that's how powerful this film -- and Kirsten Dunst's performance -- is. Clearly...I.W.T.V. is not for everyone. I'm not even sure it's for me. But given the opportunity to choose to see it or not, and knowing what I now know about it, I would definitely choose the former.