I fell in love with vampire movies after watching the 1987 movie “The Lost Boys”. Before that movie, I had only seen that kind of films for horror. Under the direction of the late Joel Schumacher, “The Lost Boys” made me see the narrative beyond the terrifying parts. I have hooked on vampire, good and bad movies, since then.
My favorite part of vampire movies is to see the protagonist realize that the first weapon you need to kill a vampire is not a cross, garlic or sunlight. He is making people create the truth. In “The Lost Boys”, it was the ostracized who first tried to get the truth and were ignored. Similarly, in the new Ryan Coogler “Sinner” film, which takes place in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, were the society of the people who most ignored the warning of the masses.
Do not be misunderstood, I love a good vampire movie with sexual attractiveness and blood. However, I am also fascinated with which character a director chooses to present the truth to the masses, and what is needed for people to create. Given the constitutional crisis in which the nation is currently, seeing men in “sinners” easily accepting the leadership of a qualified black woman was felt as a cinematic mulligan.
The first weapon established by the founders to protect against tyranny was not the right to support weapons. He assured that the government could not prevent citizens from telling the truth. Corporate media are a byproduct of capitalism, so their main concern is the final result. However, the freedom of the press is a byproduct of the desire of the editors to see democracy in this country. And after having lived under the conditions of a tyrannical government, the authors of the Declaration of Rights understood the primacy of freedom of expression.
What has always slowed the march of this country towards a more perfect union has not been freedom of the press, but a lack of will to believe the truth. And as with the transmission line in all the vampire movies I love, it matters who tells the truth to the masses.
In 1938, the term “gas light” was first introduced into the public lexicon through a work of the same name written by Thomas Hamilton. He tells the story of a wife who believes he is going crazy because her criminal husband continues to lying. In 1944, a film based on the work was released. In a scene, the husband has caught his Missing wife in a network of lies So extensive that he questions his education with his mother. What released her was not weapons or laws. It was the truth. The psychological thriller was so influential that society continues to refer to its premise in modern life, from personal relationships to politics, more than 90 years later.
In the storytelling, hiding the truth is one of the most effective ways for some characters to maintain control over others. Vampires in films, deceptive husbands in plays, corrupt officials elected in office: their survival depends on the masses do not know the truth.
They also trust people who do not believe in those who are willing to speak. The reason why President Nixon was re -elected after The Watergate scandal became public is that the masses were not willing to believe the truth.
What happens with the truth is that you do not need public recognition to exist. But to be useful, the truth needs people willing to call it by name. That is the first weapon in the battle for good. It is not surprising that it is also the first weapon that evil tries to remove.
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