#SilverScreenBlack reviews: 'Byzantium' (2012)

⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

(1hr 21mins)

📣The Girl with All the Gifts: A vampire mother & daughter struggle to find shelter from a vengeful brotherhood, and sanity from each other.

👍Blood-soaked ode:
In the film's own words, this is "dark, passionate, violent, sick, and brilliant!"
It excels at exposing the multiple layers of misogyny.
And shows the horror and wreckage of keeping great secrets, and never being freed even if you confide them, for no one could possibly believe you.

👎Brethren's code:
The film's ending might be a little too neat for some.
But this film is everything you'd want from a vampire film and so much more!
The most haunting reflection is that 'Twilight' has a film saga and 'Byzantium' doesn't...

🥇Best quote:
"How can you be two centuries old? By what miracle of science?!"
"You see, that's the tricky thing.
Because it's only over time that I can provide it.
Forty years from now, when you're pruning roses from your wheelchair, I'll stroll by your garden gate, and nothing will have changed.
I am sixteen forever,
And you'll realise this,
And it will hurt your heart."

🙁Best depressing quote:
"My story can never be told.
I write it over and over.
Then I throw the pages to the wind.
Maybe the birds can read it."

💉Best vaccine quote:
"Shall I tell you what it was like for me?
It was wonderful!
I had eyes that cut through lies.
I had lungs that breathed eternity."

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