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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Most realistic vampire movie I've seen
What is it like to live forever, but not be able to be in sunshine, and not have a job, and have to rely on mortal humans for things, and always worry about where to get your blood you need to "live" without drawing suspicion to yourself? I loved this movie because it deals with what being a vampire in the modern day would be like. The long, boring, tedious nights. Trying to arrange night-travel to different countries without being caught in the daylight. Seeing a world you once saw as pure and clean become contaminated and dirty.
This movie is very well acted and shot, the music is awesome, the dialogue great. However, if you are looking for action and drama and sex, then it isn't for you.
The whole story is simple: two vampires, married for centuries but living apart, get back together because the husband is feeling depressed and lonely. The wife travels to a dark and depressed Detroit to console and cheer-up her husband and eventually, her out-of-control sister shows up and causes problems requiring changes. This is the first movie I've seen, however, showing the tedious day-to-day (night-to-night) existence of living forever, but having to hide and not go out into daylight. I dug the movie so much, I watched it again the next night.
World's Greatest Food Markets (2014)
Simple documentary showing how things are done at three different food markets across the world.
The BBC took Roger Barton, a fish-monger from London, and places him first in the Bronx fish market in New York, then a produce market in Mexico City, and lastly in a market in India. In the New York episode, he travels north to Maine to the actual fish market, where he sees how everything is done on computers (silent auctions) to prevent fraud, then covers the history of the old Manhattan fish market. It is an interesting comparison, seeing the cleanliness and efficiency of New York, as compared to the market in Mexico, where you see how hard, how dirty and how corrupt and ruthless it is. Along the way, he is introduced to everyone from the movers and shakers up top, to the bottom of the barrel scavengers.
Sometimes the cameras wander off topic, as when he visits a customer's home for the day of the dead celebration, but overall I feel like I learned a little something about how great we have it in civilized, western countries.