re:mote voices

Title: The Addiction
Cast: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco
Director:Abel Ferrara

The Addiction is a film which couples vampirism with philosophy in an arty black and white fashion. Lili Taylor plays a philosophy student who is dragged off the street one night by a woman, and bitten. With the result that she spends the rest of the film spouting forth in an affected manner about the nature of evil and how the individual can commit evil acts. With this she is wracked by a hunger, a newfound addiction to blood. So she goes from big questions to brutally attacking people. On the whole The Addiction is very wordy, and with that conscientiously contrived, so that it is clear that this is more of a concept art film than anything else. Perhaps I wasn't in the right mood, but without the philosophic background/inclination The Addiction came across as being quite tedious.