Wait until dawn

I'm pretty obsessed with vampire narratives, and I was sure I'd seen everything. I've seen vampires used as a metaphor for being gay, for the ennui of the twentieth century and the fall from grace of the Age of Enlightenment, outbreaks of disease, Victorian attitudes about sex, contemporary Russian politics, those left dispossessed by the Scandinavian welfare state and the terrors of adolescence. I've seen them used used with varying degrees of success to explore issues of racial discrimination and homophobia (I dislike this trope and think it doesn't work). I've seen them used as metaphors for drug addiction and alienation. Of course, I've seen them used as a metaphor for sex a million times. But I don't think I'd ever seen them employed as a metaphor for rapacious, exploitative capitalism before.

Until Daybreakers.

( Nothing particularly spoilerish, but cut just in case )

Three unbelievably amazing things that you need in your lives

1. This fic.

2. This vid.

3. This song.

Oh, what the hell, this song too.