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Saya · 08-03-2009, 04:55 PM

I'm not even sure if I want to pirate it, I was a big fan of the original film, it had a shallow plot but hey, it was only 48 minutes long and it was a good time. The book Night Of The Beasts was really good, the language felt a little stiff and it did get into a LOT of detail, with not a whole lot of action, but it really added depth to Saya, and things in the film made a lot more sense. She was created by a European family who wanted to create a vampire-human hybrid, and she was raised with this family. Her adopted family was Jewish and they all died in the Holocaust, and ever since she blamed the church for not speaking out against Hitler, hence the hatred she had in the movie for religion. It also had a lot to do about idealism and activism, the last scene was particularly good, after she saved the day the boy she was helping, Rei, who at the time was a student activist protesting the Vietnam War, grew up, grew out of his ideals, went to college, got a business job, got married, divorced, got fat, got a drinking problem, remarried. Then he sees Saya on the subway one day, and of course she's still young, and he feels ashamed to remember how he was at the time, and how he betrayed his youthful ideals.

So yeah, I don't think this movie would have what I liked about the original, doesn't seem to be political at all, effects look really bad and a token blond girl just seems to got have thrown in for the hell of it (what happened to the pleasantly plump nurse?) That and it got scathingly bad reviews.

08-03-2009, 04:55 PM	#2
Saya Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,548	I'm not even sure if I want to pirate it, I was a big fan of the original film, it had a shallow plot but hey, it was only 48 minutes long and it was a good time. The book Night Of The Beasts was really good, the language felt a little stiff and it did get into a LOT of detail, with not a whole lot of action, but it really added depth to Saya, and things in the film made a lot more sense. She was created by a European family who wanted to create a vampire-human hybrid, and she was raised with this family. Her adopted family was Jewish and they all died in the Holocaust, and ever since she blamed the church for not speaking out against Hitler, hence the hatred she had in the movie for religion. It also had a lot to do about idealism and activism, the last scene was particularly good, after she saved the day the boy she was helping, Rei, who at the time was a student activist protesting the Vietnam War, grew up, grew out of his ideals, went to college, got a business job, got married, divorced, got fat, got a drinking problem, remarried. Then he sees Saya on the subway one day, and of course she's still young, and he feels ashamed to remember how he was at the time, and how he betrayed his youthful ideals. So yeah, I don't think this movie would have what I liked about the original, doesn't seem to be political at all, effects look really bad and a token blond girl just seems to got have thrown in for the hell of it (what happened to the pleasantly plump nurse?) That and it got scathingly bad reviews.