Well Byzantium is a great, underrated vampire movie that passed before us very quickly like nothing happened, when in reality marks one of Neil Jordan's masterpieces together with Interview With The Vampire. The truly astounding cinematography, along with the impeccable atmosphere turn the movie into a poem of vampire mythology, giving to the audience one of the most touching and emotional films of the 2010 decade. Byzantium lives and breathes for us, it offers us shelter from the rain and the cold and more than anything it gives us another side of the vampire movie, the side of beauty, the side of trouble, the side of the heart, the side of the soul, the side of the thing that lives inside of every man and tries to find purpose and courage in this world. Byzantium is truly a movie speaking to the very intimate emotions of the spectator, the film touches a sensitive string inside of us, making the experience a heart-shivering thing, that drags us to its lair, drags us to its pathos and charm, drags us to the cinematic beauty that can be felt through the fantasizing locations of the movie and the bright, vivid, alive colours of the film. There is no doubt that the movie got much less than it deserved, it is a film rarely spoken, a film that lives to the dark side of the moon, a film that is made for the true brave and courageous people. The neon lights, the characters' emotional struggle, the story itself, the gloomy, melancholic atmosphere, the strangeness of the experiment, all of the them, add something to the films' unquestionable allure that wraps itself around the shoulders of the spectator and takes him to a special place where there is only beauty of art, cinematic triumph, cinematic joy, cinematic revolution. Byzantium is one of the films that they will be considered a cult classic in some years from now, it has all those qualities to make it a cult selection and it is more than certain that Byzantium will find its place in a throne, maybe not the mainstream one, but one that is more valuable, more substantial and more enduring. Byzantium is a movie to make our dreams captivating. And we love our dreams in the same way that we love this movie.
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