The Addiction 4K 1995

This movie has made it to my personal list of cult pictures. Musical, symbolic, dark and almost grotesque, with a healthy amount of self-irony that has become tiresome of late. You don't want to take the subject of vampirism too seriously. It's better to look up and read the title of the movie. It is about addiction - of any kind - that the movie is about.

A cute philosophy student is preparing to defend her dissertation. She is tidy, both in thought and appearance, and seems to know what she wants. But one evening her bus is late and there is no one around; a mysterious woman pushes her into a dark alley; danger is very close, but if you fight back in time, you can avoid it. The student is in doubt, which is why the woman rewards her with dire consequences in the form of a sweet bite to the neck.

The student's needs are increasing. She is insatiable. This metaphor can be applied to consumer society, and to small Fausts, greedy for books and knowledge, who agree to be bitten, only to live forever, to be special....

Christopher Walken has a small role. On the one hand, I would like to prolong the pleasure, once again enjoy the game of genius, but he was able and in five minutes to fill the movie with himself. His character brings deep notes, proving by example that it is possible to cope with any addiction, even such an exotic one. He cites the example of many philosophers and writers whose creations were some stage of transition, reincarnation. And this is another proof that great books are not taken from the head. They are real withdrawals.

The ending is bright. It gives hope in the salvation of a rebellious soul.