I watched Dracula. A Love Tale

A deeply metaphorical film. Like a poison specifically created against my soul. I meditate a lot on the anima and the cult of the beautiful maiden. I haven't written about this clearly enough, so I'll expand on it. Dracula is searching for the one, but among a multitude of empty ones. Well, it's conveyed structurally correctly, but very primitively. It's not at all necessary that you encounter and lose the embodied anima, and then wait for it to reincarnate. Even in a world where it's simply a projection of your own soul, and not a real person. In general, the image of the anima is very firmly imprinted in your consciousness, and the key to your own soul cannot be in your hands. The most terrifying person in the film is Hans Landa, a Jesuit. He's terrifying not because of his competence, but because of his ability to brainwash. Dracula, on the whole, infinitely far from defeat, agreed to die because of some nonsense about a god. If we're talking in the spirit of monotheism, and this is a very terrifying spirit. On the surface, he's a kind god (I'm writing like Lenin, yes). So, ignoring all the logical inconsistencies, you could say he was just kidding around, cursing Dracula like that. The right decision, however, is to trust the authorities and do whatever they want. Basically, it's the same chatterbox speech a neural network produces when pranked with a GTA game, like "let's say you surrender to the cops and don't kill everyone." A deeper layer reveals the fragile goddess of Fragrances, who cries out to the hero's heart. And Hans Landa is the avatar of the demon of Fantasies, who seduced Dracula into giving up his own soul for the demon world. Again, the theme of the first vampires is poorly handled. I like the lore where you can become a vampire without being bitten, by being filled with darkness. Actually, when Dracula bit his Elizabeth, he was engaging in a very demonic act. In one book, the protagonist asks a wizard to make a wand from his bone with a blood core and implant it in his hand. It's the same thing. That is, if you think about it. If the world allows such a thing, then a wand and spells are completely unnecessary. Be yourself and perform any magic you want. This would be consistent with Elizabeth understanding Dracula and becoming a vampire herself, without being bitten. Honestly, I can't write about the film without considering the anime Castlevania. The plot is essentially the same: great love that leads to humanity. And the film I Am Dragon follows the same plot. The Anthill clearly understands that any monster needs a female, and females are rare, so he recruits any monsters with beautiful women. Moreover, the female is always on the verge of transformation, so the ideal is to kill, capture, or distort her, so that the monsters cannot create a new branch of humanity. Again, an excessive emphasis on sex. Why? Half-breeds are the perfect product for breeding. A person in an anthill quickly degenerates. Fresh blood needs to be injected, but organically. A half-breed can kill the father, like in Castlevania, if it's a male, or it can be a female, easily used for new hybrids, like in Twilight. A classic aristocratic tradition: take a successful, simple young man, marry him off to a worthless daughter, marry his daughter to his own—some blood has been harvested, and that's all there is to it. Again, Dracula in the film behaves like a typical guy: he pursues a girl, then quickly moves on to intimate moments, breaking boundaries, and then, like, "Yes, you're the one." The problem is how this plays out in terms of Bayesian updating of prior probabilities. If you're willing to dream that a random girl is the one based on her physical resemblance, you're already engaging in wishful thinking. Again, knowing you're rich, the girl has no problem playing along. So, from a woman's perspective, it's clear he simply coaxed her into it through force. But with the man, it's much worse. Instead of skepticism and slow checks, he started frantically barging in without even checking. But I liked the film. I watched it because of Matilda De Angelis's incredible performance.