Sunday, September 19, 2010

Watch The Movie Daybreakers

By Floyd Middleton

It is not hard to see that vampire media is something that is in full swing. There are new television shows coming out all the time headlining vampire relationships or existing with vampires. They are everywhere you turn around, and people have tried to go above and beyond to make their versions and stories unique from anything that you might have heard or seen before. Such is the case with "Daybreakers".

This is a film that has taken an age old tale about vampires and put a spin on it unlike anything that has been seen in vampire cinema to date. Through the course of this article, you will get a brief plot synopsis as well as what makes this particular movie so unique from some of the other alternatives that are out there to view.

Before you get into the events of the film, you should understand the plot premise by which this film takes a stand in a new story. This is the fact that after years of people being vampires and making new vampires, the world is very overrun with them. So much in fact that the human race is dying out and there is only a very small percentage of humans left on the Earth.

This synopsis might contain spoilers for those that have not seen the film, so beware of this if you are trying to find a very non-descript synopsis, this is not it. The film itself opens on the knowledge that the world is 95 percent vampire. With this knowledge, a team of people have been placed together to develop synthetic blood to sustain the population, as humans are becoming scarce.

Ethan Hawke is Edward Dalton, a man who is in charge of seeing that a synthetic form of blood is created to sustain the population of vampires. If he cannot come up with a solution such as this, than millions of vampires could die of starvation, which is grotesque and painful to say the very least.

Dalton runs into some humans and he decides to help them stay alive. He is given some valuable information from Willem DaFoe's character, Elvis. He is a human that is leading the group and he was at one point a vampire. Through a freak accident, he was able to learn the secret to becoming human again.

Dalton had never wanted to be a vampire in the first place, and relishes the chance to become human again and sees to it that he orchestrates a similar situation to what Elvis described. After a couple of failed attempts, Dalton is returned to being a human with a beating heart and pumping blood. Now its time to tell his former company about the cure.

"Daybreakers" reaches its climax as Edward Dalton is to have another encounter with his former boss, Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). By this point, the audience has learned that humans who used to be vampires have different blood. This blood will turn a vampire back into being a human as well. So for every vampire that attempts to feed on one of these humans, also becomes a human capable of turning other vampires. - 40723

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