Capitalism pressures society to consume more and produce more (Magdoff, 2013). In Daybreakers, the vampirism outbreak caused many humans to turn into vampires. The demand for human blood surged and this caused human hunting and farming. Edward’s brother, Frankie, confesses to turning Edward because he does not want his brother to be captured and farmed. This is probably true for many of the existing vampires – they turn others because the human hunt by the capitalists pressured them to. In this way, the vampire society is pressured to consume more (blood) as the number of vampires increase. On the other hand, as blood is an essential sustenance, capitalists have to produce more and more of it. As a result, human supply rapidly declines, and merely ten years after the outbreak, human population is nearly extinct. Another scene during the movie which shows the effects of capitalism is during Edward’s visit to Bromley’s office. Bromley was seen drinking blood lavishly even though many others in the society suffer from blood deprivation.
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During the last moments of his life, Frankie had saved his brother by sacrificing himself. While he was eaten by the group of vampires, his face was left clean. Furthermore, his posture was the posture of a hero. His arms were spread wide open, creating a distance between Frankie and the other corpses piling around him. This entire scene of Frankie’s death seems to give him a heroic death, even though the movie did not portray Frankie as a hero. In fact, Frankie was an antagonist for most part of the movie. He is always trying to prevent Edward, the main protagonist of the movie, from grouping with the humans. However, the representation of his death as noble stands in stark contrast to another antagonist, Charles’ death in the previous scene, in which his entire head was completely cut
Again, this is an allegory of what is happening in the real …show more content…
During the last moments of his life, Frankie had saved his brother by sacrificing himself. While he was eaten by the group of vampires, his face was left clean. Furthermore, his posture was the posture of a hero. His arms were spread wide open, creating a distance between Frankie and the other corpses piling around him. This entire scene of Frankie’s death seems to give him a heroic death, even though the movie did not portray Frankie as a hero. In fact, Frankie was an antagonist for most part of the movie. He is always trying to prevent Edward, the main protagonist of the movie, from grouping with the humans. However, the representation of his death as noble stands in stark contrast to another antagonist, Charles’ death in the previous scene, in which his entire head was completely cut