Tuesday, June 12, 2007

What if eveything was just a big lie?…

“Shadow of the Vampire” was one of the off-beat movies of the genre. The film tells the story of a real vampire called Max Schreck (played by Willem Dafoe) pretending to be an actor playing a vampire. In the film, it’s cross-examined whether the one who kills by its nature or the one kills in order to verify his existence through his art is “the real monster”. It shows how our point of view is changed by morality and logical thinking although the place of “the act of murdering” doesnt change in a human’s basic needs hierarchy. The fictional irony here repeats itself in the real life with too many different faces. We live in a world that the ruling paranoia of nothing and noone is really what it seems to be. On the other hand, some people who hide behind the mysterious mask of vampire myth feeds our paranoia within us.

There are many people who are curious if the vampires are for real as many as there are some others who claim to live this mystery in person. But why do these people claim to be vampires? What are they really trying to do by doing so? Is it their fear which they hide from everyone behind a veil of mystery that they weave around themselves? Modern science says vampires do not exist, though some so-called scientists sugest the opposite. The ones who claim to be vampires are busy by adding up some alternatives to the stereotype of common knowledge vampire and broadening the definitions. What if they are vampires indeed, what would it change?... Internet is full of people who say they are real vampires. In same the group of people there appears a wide scala of high school teenage girls or elder psychopaths. Pretending to be vampire isnt just limited with the apparel. Some so-called vampires say they feed on blood and even enjoy doing it.

I want to tell you that I dont believe that there are such vampires found in our reality like the ones told in the books. Eternal life and the adjoining super human powers are maybe the biggest dreams of humanity. The materialization of such dreams is leading us to the vampire character who possess all of these. I believe that the vampires in real life (not the “real” vampires in life) are just people living in their own reality. If this reality is just a big lie for us all, these people are so fond of being what they are. Should they be called “liars”? I’d rather not. Instead of using the terms of the modern psychology, I wont make anything go with that. The eternal life could well be scientifically managed dream of the future. Possibly it wont have anything to do with vampirism or blood drinking. If vampires are not for real, then why are so many people interested in them? In order to explain it by an example, nobody could comment on that I wouldnt want to see the next Spider Man movie just because He doesnt really exist. Vampires will always attract my attention I guess. Well, isnt it some kind of eternal life?...

SP.