What's your opinion on the true bad guy of the film? I don't think it was the vampires i think they were also victims of oppression in a previous life.
Are you asking me to identify the film's true bad-guy character? In terms of both the dramatic action in the second half, which builds to a climax as the character Remmick (played by Jack O'Connell) is destroyed, it has to be Remmick -- he gets the most screen time.
One could argue that a vampire is not a person and cannot choose other than to be a vampire, and therefore might be excused from guilt -- but that's exactly why the question doesn't make sense for this film if one takes the story literally. A rabid dog that attacks a person might have been the nicest dog ever before he contracted the disease, but once the disease affects the animal's brain, it behaves in unpredictable and incontrollable ways. One might not blame the dog, but it still has to be destroyed.
But taken allegorically, the vampires are only a symbol of the oppressiveness of the Jim Crow South. They are carriers, if you will, of the virus of hate. Like a rabid animal, they cannot control their actions and are driven to act out hatred and to pass the virus to others. The same applies to the KKK types who are killed at the end of the movie, except for one thing: humans, unlike rabid animals or vampires, have the capacity to change, to throw off the racism and hatred that was instilled in them. "Sinners" doesn't allow for this, because this movie is not concerned with it. (A movie that does suggest this possibility, for example, is "To Kill a Mockingbird," which shows a mob of white townspeople intent on lynching a jail inmate being brought to their senses when a young child greets some of them by name. In fact, the "redemption" trope is one of the most popular in Hollywood, so such stories should be easy to find.)
Yes from a narrative point of view the vampires are the bad guys. But I don't think they were supposed to be the evil at the route of this world. The post credit scene makes me think this aswell when the vampires turn up to hear Sammy play one more time. I think the fact that Remmick was Irish was also very purposeful due to the history of oppression that Ireland has had. I'm not saying his intentions were all good but I think oppression was the bad guy in this film.
What's your opinion on the true bad guy of the film? I don't think it was the vampires i think they were also victims of oppression in a previous life.
Are you asking me to identify the film's true bad-guy character? In terms of both the dramatic action in the second half, which builds to a climax as the character Remmick (played by Jack O'Connell) is destroyed, it has to be Remmick -- he gets the most screen time.
One could argue that a vampire is not a person and cannot choose other than to be a vampire, and therefore might be excused from guilt -- but that's exactly why the question doesn't make sense for this film if one takes the story literally. A rabid dog that attacks a person might have been the nicest dog ever before he contracted the disease, but once the disease affects the animal's brain, it behaves in unpredictable and incontrollable ways. One might not blame the dog, but it still has to be destroyed.
But taken allegorically, the vampires are only a symbol of the oppressiveness of the Jim Crow South. They are carriers, if you will, of the virus of hate. Like a rabid animal, they cannot control their actions and are driven to act out hatred and to pass the virus to others. The same applies to the KKK types who are killed at the end of the movie, except for one thing: humans, unlike rabid animals or vampires, have the capacity to change, to throw off the racism and hatred that was instilled in them. "Sinners" doesn't allow for this, because this movie is not concerned with it. (A movie that does suggest this possibility, for example, is "To Kill a Mockingbird," which shows a mob of white townspeople intent on lynching a jail inmate being brought to their senses when a young child greets some of them by name. In fact, the "redemption" trope is one of the most popular in Hollywood, so such stories should be easy to find.)
Yes from a narrative point of view the vampires are the bad guys. But I don't think they were supposed to be the evil at the route of this world. The post credit scene makes me think this aswell when the vampires turn up to hear Sammy play one more time. I think the fact that Remmick was Irish was also very purposeful due to the history of oppression that Ireland has had. I'm not saying his intentions were all good but I think oppression was the bad guy in this film.