Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is a unique vampire story that takes place in the Iranian town of Bad City, a place that reeks of death and despair. This is where a young, female vampire lives, walking the streets at night as she preys on mostly bad men. While most films that use black and white photography do it for trivial reasons, the black and white used in this film is critical, elevating the atmosphere of the film while simultaneously evoking the loneliness of the vampire, lurking in the shadows, a quiet observer. A Girl Walks explores gender roles in an oppressive society, using this vampire as a allegorical figure, a strong female who seizes power in a male dominant world. While the ambition is certainly there, the films intentions do feel unfocused at times, caught in between this love story type tale of loneliness which unfolds and it's more thematic intentions. Neither aspect truly stands out because of this but the film does have masterful sequences throughout. My favorite aspect of the film revolves around a prostitute that the vampire slowly befriends, a lonely woman whose at the mercy of masculine characters. She embodies the many ideas of the film better than any other character, being opressed, lonely and seeking a way out. Stylistically impressive and shot in crisp black and white photography, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night presents a unique new voice in Ana Lily Amirpour that is certainly worth watching.
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