Interview with the Vampire (one)

Interview with the Vampire is also a classical vampire film made in 1994 in America, which is adapted from Anne Rice’s novel. The film is about the story recalled by the protagonist Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is a vampire that still alive in the modern day.  

Louis’ story happened in the 18^th century in Louisiana. He was a manor owner who felt despaired to life after the deaths of his wife and child, then he met a vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt and was transformed by him. In the film, Louis is a vampire who’s almost a positive character that maintains the humanity. He hates Lestat as well as himself as a vampire, and he tries to keep his humanity and represses desires to blood and killing. The other vampires in the firm admire him because of his kind, self-control, humanity, as well as his struggle and sorrow as a vampire. However, Louis is hesitant and passive towards admire and love, he thinks he cannot control his fate and he is unclear to his feeling of love. The only thing that he insists in is keeping his humanity, and his only defiance and killing is for the revenge for Claudia at the end. So, from looking at a vampire character like Louis, we can also find some human nature inside him.