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This is my friend Rogers movie that premiered at Sundance.  Here is the synopsis I wrote for it: 

A mysterious vampire presence moves through the small town of Stafford Springs Connecticut seeming to almost be doing miserable people the favor of removing them from this planet. Peter feels just as trapped as everyone else until he starts spending time with Danny, his beautiful new co-worker at the convenient store.  She is  getting married in a week because in her world thats what people do. The dark force moving through the town collides with these characters conflicts in an instantly classic resolve of pure vampire teeth sinking bliss.

This film is more and more relevant every day. And it's a great film. Hillarious and at the same time a really great comment on how TV warps peoples minds. Also deals with peoples need for someone to preach what they believe. But the film works on another level as well. I was telling my friend Roger about the film and I realized that it also works on another level. Warning people not only to beware of the truth spun by TV, but also beware of the truth spun by reality. To not take what our eyes see as complete fact but know that we are more then whats inside our skin and that there is a more birds eye view way to look at life so that we aren't just tuning into the next episode.
Howard Beale says, "you people are the real thing, we are the illusion" and that line works on this other level I'm talking about as well. Maybe reality is also an illusion. So it's an illusion creating illusions. Very meta.

Great quotes like that make this movie pretty classic.  My favorite seen is when the lead girl is winning everyone at Mortal Combat and then the lead guy she likes starts playing and she just stares at him with adoration.  With her eyes off the video game screen he takes her head and rips it out of her body in the game and then is holding a head that has a spine dangling out of it.  In one scene you see whats going to happen over the course of the movie.  Brilliant.

 

Whats amazing is to see literally medical refuges.  People leaving the country to seek medical care in countries that don't have profit based health care systems.  Michael Moore takes you every where you need to go to have the passion that he has on this issue as your own.  You need to see this film so you know that there are people in the medical industry confessing that they withheld medical treatment in order to further their career.  This is why filmmaking exists, so we can all share our humanity and if something is as broken as our medical system is we can all work together to first become aware of it's problems and then to fix them. 

And you'll get some good laughs in the film too.

Arin