The vampire did the right thing this time

At night on the streets of New York, a lone woman wandered, dragging her tired body home after a day of school, however, just then, an alluringly dressed woman came up to her and quickly dragged her by the hand into an abandoned underground passage. The enchanting woman said to the lone woman, you have to reject me, and to reject me very decisively, but the lone woman in addition to fear, at this moment can no longer find other emotions, so a tragic scene occurred, the enchanting woman ruthlessly towards the lone woman's neck to bite. From this moment on, there was a vampire in New York City.

Such haunting images are but the usual scenes of this film, as a vampire movie. Addicted to Night takes a philosophical approach to the causes of vampirism and the basis of its existence. Catherine, a college student addicted to Nietzsche and Heidegger, has 100% confidence in her scholarship, yet is still overwhelmed by fear when confronted with reality. The existentialism he relies on does not solve the real problems. The story continues to unfold, but Catherine's tomorrow begins to look bleak. Catherine must find a meaning to her existence or she will not be able to survive as a vampire in New York.

The average vampire movie brings either fear or poignancy to the viewer. Beneath the ugliness, as in Nosferatu, it is haunting, or as in Twilight, it is haunting. For vampire movies, creating fear and creating an atmosphere is always the goal, but this film explores something beyond both. The reality of existence is intertwined with the reality of confronting existence. What we see is Catherine's gradual process as a researcher with her practice.

One of the novels mentioned in Night Addiction is Naked Lunch, and for both works, the gradual addiction is a process that slowly wears down one's tenacity. The main character in "Naked Lunch" starts from the initial confusion to the later inability to extricate himself, the whole process is unconscious and he slowly indulges in it, and finally, when he faces himself, the main character in "Naked Lunch" realizes that there is some kind of connection between the real world and the virtual world, and the gradual advancement to the truth is the process of slowly breaking this connection.

Catherine's journey from her initial disgust at her new identity to her ability to face her victim's fear without changing her face and heart, as a victim who gradually turns herself into a perpetrator, is extraordinary, and also represents the existentialism she relies on to change the mindset of believers through practice.

When the body and the spirit coexist in one body, can we judge whether what is shown to the outside world at one moment is the body and what is shown to the outside world at one moment is the soul? Catherine, as a researcher, is initially vague about the concept she is studying, but when she is attacked by a strange woman on the streets of New York, the identity of a vampire takes root in her to the point that she eventually accepts it.

The whole process confronts Catherine with the torture of her soul; why it all happened she does not know, but why it all developed without her participation. The subject of Catherine's research is existentialism, which is about the centrality of the human being, as a person, as a being whose individuality and freedom are fully respected. This is the viewpoint of the vampire in this film.

Back to the beginning, before Catherine is attacked by a woman, the woman asks Catherine to look at her heart, which is a kind of resisting power, and this power is not restrained, but Catherine uses her moral sense to restrain her desire, and will be the deepest power to suppress, in the end, to meet her is not a happy ending. Because of this moment, Catherine and her research subject are contrary to the path. She was getting farther and farther away from the subject of her research.

And when Catherine became a vampire, faced with her dual identity, Catherine began to awaken in a sense. Self-formation, self-achievement, thus rejecting all the knowledge in the textbooks and turning from a simple user of knowledge to a producer of knowledge, this transformation of Catherine, in a certain sense, practices what the vampire espouses in this film, letting go of the truth in her heart, embracing the falsity of the world, and transforming those falsities into real vampires, which is the choice Catherine finally makes.

When vampires start to talk about philosophy, ordinary people do not have any chance to make a choice. After Catherine's dependence on the night is gradually lost in the end, she truly owns her body as well as her soul. This possession is all-encompassing and also carries out the vampire's claim. After Catherine reinvents herself, there is a bloody scene at the party. Detached herself from the real world and then reshaped that real world with her ideas, respecting the freedom of the individual and then using the individual to re-inverse the whole. When Catherine's claims were carried out, she truly completed the reshaping of the world with the ideas she had learned.