Vampire Adam (Tom Hiddleston) - suicidal misanthrope and romantic, lives in Detroit and collects vintage guitars, and occasionally strums stringy gloomy blues. Vampire Eva (Tilda Swinton) – Adam’s loyal wife and friend, lives in Tangier, and loves little white iPhones and ice cream "blood on a stick". When Eve comes to Adam to Detroit, it seems nothing can disturb their meditative existence. Nothing except Eve’s sister – Ava (Mia Wasikowska) who brings chaos everywhere she goes.
Following Twilight, the director of Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) makes a film about love between two creatures of the night (and this is the only similarity, fortunately), but involves a problem of a higher order. Jarmusch allows the audience to observe zombies (the vampires word for humanity) through eyes of the beings that are much older than us. In his interview Jarmusch said:
[Adam] is hurt by things he sees people do that he doesn’t understand or why does the world acts the way it does … Out of all of the potential operating systems we could have, why is it this one? It’s a system based on greed and power, manipulation, subjugation and colonialism, which obviously isn’t good. (Jarmusch, 2014, para.…show more content… It is neither a thriller nor a horror, and it doesn't even truly focus on the world of vampires. Instead, Jarmusch studies the eternal; he explores the quiet, perhaps boring, everyday life of modern, intelligent and ancient beings that have, quite literally, seen it all. From the first frame, the viewer is immersed in a beautiful, sad story of the fate of two vampires’, hermits, from which the viewer begins to feel a little sleepy (but not too much). The audience becomes a little envious of them, but all this envy disappears when they hear the lovers’ thoughts on life. Having lived for centuries, they’ve seen it all, and one can’t help but start to think about impermanence of life when listening to
