i watched interview with the vampire again today. quite a good movie i think. full of good actors (Tom Cruise!*v*)but the background music is terrible…

i had a little discussion with my friends a few days ago in an accounting class(accounting sux!). apparently they considered it cool to become a vampire; a immortal life seemed quite desirable. it was hard to persuade them that living a endless life is actually painful and desparate. just imagine seeing the sunrise for one last time, i said to them. julie shrugged and said that she hated sun. what if u never grow up and change your shape, i said. christina just laughed and said that would be perfect – being young forever!

if i was going to make that decision, i would choose a mortal life. to grow up, to change, to get old, to die. those are the beauty of life. without death, life would seem so weak and dimished that even life itself would become pointless. immortality, or eternity, is such a thing: first you get excited about it, then you get tired,  untill it becomes a torment to even take another breath. the loneliness, the pain and the memories will pile up inside you and enshroud you and suffocate you. your soul is dead, your heart is rotten, yet you are alive.

interview with the vampire is quite different from other vampire movies. it’s almost the only one to actually focus on the loneliness and tiredness of being immortal. louis is weak yet strong, both being a human and a vampire. he is too weak to do evil things, too weak to grasp his one last piece of humanity inside him. yet he is being himself, and that’s the beauty of him, the reason why lestat and armand so desperately long for him.

i wish my friends could watch this movie; it makes the sunlight even brighter than it had ever been.