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Summary: Loneliness is a Stake Through the Heart
Review: Vampire's Kiss is an overlooked and misunderstood dark comedy, and an allegory for the isolating fear of intimacy that can mimic being "undead." It features an amazing physical comic performance by Nicholas Cage as Peter Loew, which deserves recognition.I've read reviews wherein people feel that the character of Peter Loew has descended into madness as a result of being a jilted lover. But his madness is more about his crushing loneliness in a world where everyone around him seems to be happily and easily paired off. In spite of his solitude, he is emotionally unable to connect to anyone. ... . It's over the top and a little hard to understand, but I found this movie so engaging, and Cage's performance so funny and astonishing, in spite of the dark subject matter, that I have watched it over and over again. I have used this movie as a compatibility test for potential mates (which is sort of Peter-ish, I guess), and if they like it, I know it's a good match. If it had been performed another way, by another actor, I don't know if I would like it at all. But Cage brings brutality, vulnerability, tragedy, and all-out desperation together to create a complex character the like of which I have never seen before or since. Sure, there are violent scenes, but are they real, or are they his imagination? We'll never know. So much of Vampire's Kiss happens in Loew's mind that all we know for sure is that he's desperately alone. So alone, he's willing to drive someone else over the edge to help ease his pain. He's so cowardly and childish that he uses terror as a way to achieve relief from his horrible solitude-the idea of death is less frightening to him that actually getting close to a real person. Therein lies the horror, and the sadness, of Vampire's Kiss. And in Cage, lies the performance which makes this story watchable, and actually very funny.
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Summary: Brilliant, superbe, excellent movie!!!!
Review: We are 3 youngsters from a northern place in Sweden, and we're addicted to this movie. We saw it almost everyday for three years, but sadly enough the tape died on us and completely broke..so hrrm..we have no lifes now. Anyway..to make a long story short, this is the best charactrer role cage has done (besides moonstruck), believe us..this movie will make you puke guts out of laughter.... Quote: You're the lowest on the totempole here Alva...the loewest Q#2: Hello...hiii..i was just thinking...hello
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Summary: would you eat a roach?
Review: What this movie is most famous for is Nick Cage eating a live cockroach (actually, he ate two, but only one appears in the film), when what it should be known for is the fact that it was so far ahead of its time. It's a black comedy that appeared before the big run on dark comedies (had it appeared a mere five years later, it wouldn't have been cutting edge). Peter Loew (Cage) is such a bad person, that we can't help but laugh at what he says and the things he does, as horrible as they may be. On the surface the film appears to be about madness, but really, loneliness is at its core. We can identify with what Loew feels, if not what he does. The dvd contains a commentary track with Cage and director Robert Bierman, who hadn't gotten together to talk about the film in 11 years. And as great as the movie is, the commentary is just as wonderful. You get insight into the making of the film (and an understanding of the horrible accent Cage uses in the film), and hearing them laugh along with you at the horridness of Loew just adds to the experience. It's a great film, and though sparse, a great dvd.
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