So I was perusing Youtube when I came across this.
In a way, Daybreakers seems to represent everything I've been talking about when it comes to vampires. It's a grim depiction of the future where the vampire has become commonplace and mundane. As several of the characters in the trailer point out, this is also a very stupid future (for logistical reasons alone: a society of vampires would obviously need to enact strict measures to ensure that the ratio of human to vampire is enough to sustain a renewable food source, which it appears the vampires in this film are not doing). This could be interpreted as an allegory for the state of vampire fiction and its followers in the modern world: growing at an exponential rate to the point where it becomes like a plague (any guesses as to what created the vampires in this film? Anyone?) and leaves the world a bleaker, hollowed-out place.
Of course, the irony of this is that this film is yet again presenting a "new" spin on the vampire that will surely create copycats or at the very least continue the trend we've been seeing for the past few years. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, it seems.
On a marginally related note, who do you think would win in a fight between Count Chocula and the Count from Sesame Street? Wouldn't that be awesome?
God, now even I'm doing it.
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