A 2023 French-Canadian film, 'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person', offers a unique and humorous perspective on the classic vampire trope. The film follows Sasha, a traumatized young vampire who struggles to embrace her blood-sucking nature. When she meets a suicidal teenager named Paul, their lives take an unexpected turn.
The Twilight Renaissance might be over, but that doesn’t mean that the sun has risen for vampires, forcing them to hide in their coffins in shame once again. On the contrary, 2024 was a great year for the fanged creatures, both in movies and on television.
That is because the protagonist of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, young Sasha , isn’t very well-adjusted to her role as a creature of the night. Traumatized as a little girl in what was supposed to be her first proper feeding, Sasha came of age unable to show her fangs. Much to her parents’ despair, she only feeds off of blood bags filled up by her hunting mother. However, things begin to change when she meets a suicidal teenager by the name of Paul .
And this doesn’t apply exclusively to Sasha. Despite its title, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person isn’t necessarily pro-suicide, at least not where it concerns its male co-protagonist. Over the course of the movie, Paul learns to find his own voice. What starts as a journey to fulfill his dying wish soon becomes something more as he and Sasha bond. By the end of the film, Paul is a completely different person from the meek boy he is in the first few scenes, and so is Sasha.
Posts 8 There is also something to be said about how the movie can be read as a treaty on neurodivergence. Sasha is diagnosed by a series of vampire doctors as having post-traumatic stress disorder and too much of a soft spot for her prey, something that is unthinkable for vampires. And, throughout the film’s 90-minute runtime, she doesn’t learn how to become someone that she is not. Instead, she learns how to navigate the world with her own set of rules.
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