i went into this movie 100% blind. this movie had so much potential based on the setting of the film alone, but they decided to take it in an unfortunately generic direction. in the movie itself they even mention monsters that would have been more interesting to watch, but it turns out that the actual monsters are… vampires? as if we don’t have enough vampire movies. as soon as that was revealed the movie lost all of its suspense for…

this movie felt… unfinished?
maybe that was the point and i just missed it but we got to the end and i couldn’t believe that it was just… ending? it felt like there was some larger point it was going to try to make beyond the “these people enjoy their pleasant lives while sharing a wall with one of the worst atrocities in human history” that it established in the first 10 minutes, but apparently not. there were a few…

wow. it's been a while since i've watched a movie that i connected with this much. watching this movie brought back my own (much less poetic) memories of one-day-only rendezvous with random strangers while traveling that i had completely forgotten about -- discussions about our hopes, fears, childhoods, and all of the other deep conversations that you are only able to have so freely with people you don't know outside of the few hours you spend together in a foreign…