I fell in love with vampire films after seeing the 1987 film “The Lost Boys”. Before this film, I only saw this kind of films for horror. Under the direction of the late Joel Schumacher, “The Lost Boys” made me see the narration beyond the frightening parts. Since then, I have been hanging on vampire films – good and bad – since.
My favorite part of vampire films is to watch the protagonist realize that the first weapon you need to kill a vampire is not a cross, a garlic or a sunlight. It is to bring people to believe the truth. In “The Lost Boys”, it was ostracized who first tried to bring out the truth and was ignored. Similarly, in the new film by Ryan Coogler “Sinners” – which takes place in the Mississippi Delta in 1932 – it was the most popular society that first ignored the masses.
Don't get me wrong, I like a good vampire movie with sex appeal and blood. However, I am also fascinated by the character that a director chooses to introduce the truth to the masses – and what it takes to bring people to believe them. Given the constitutional crisis, the nation is currently found, looking at men in “sinners” easily accepting the direction of a qualified black woman felt like a cinematographic Mulligan.
The first weapon that the founders established to protect against tyranny was not the right to bear arms. It was by ensuring that the government cannot prevent citizens from telling the truth. Corporate media is a by-product of capitalism, and therefore their main concern is essential. However, freedom of the press is a by-product of the desire of editors to see democracy in this country survive. And having lived under the conditions of a tyrannical government, the authors of the Declaration of Rights understood the primacy of freedom of expression.
Which has always slowed down this country's march towards a more perfect union was not press freedom, but a reluctance to believe the truth. And as with the line of the line in all the vampire films that I like, he counts who tells the truth to the masses.
In 1938, the term “gas light” was introduced for the first time in the public lexicon through a piece of the same name written by Thomas Hamilton. He tells the story of a woman who believes that she becomes crazy because her criminal husband continues to lie to her. In 1944, a film based on the play was released. In a scene, the husband trapped his uneasiness in a network of lies So extended that she questions her education with her mother. What released it was not weapons or laws. It was the truth. The psychological thriller was so influential that society continues to reference its premise in modern life – from personal relationships to politics – more than 90 years later.
In narration, hiding the truth is one of the most effective ways for some characters to maintain control over others. Vampires in films, deception husbands in plays, elected officials corrupt – their survival depends on the masses who do not know the truth.
They also count on people who do not believe in those who are ready to express themselves. The reason why President Nixon was re -elected After The Watergate scandal became public, it is that the masses were not willing to believe the truth.
The thing about the truth is that it does not need public recognition exists. But to be useful, the truth needs people to be ready to call it by name. It is the first weapon of the battle for good. Unsurprisingly, it is also the first weapon that evil tries to withdraw.
