His love is a small box he keeps you in.
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I respect the Interview With the Vampire series because it seems dedicated to answering important questions such as “would actually getting a crumb of Lestat’s dick have fixed Armand” with a resounding “no”
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Louis and Armand gave Daniel a performance - and what a performance, Daniel is a tough crowd - but imo there was sincerity shining through, like Armand obviously loving Louis syncing up with him, or when they were reminiscing their first encounter. And I wonder if that is the easiest way for them to tap into these romantic feelings - through a performance, because it's a good excuse for Louis to revel into his surviving feelings, and because, for the both of them, it helps keep the resentment further at bay for a moment.
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So much of this episode is about proof of what is 'real', a theme that will draw itself through the season with the archival pages as well as the legal bindings of an upcoming trial later in the season.
Several repetitions of photography as evidence, but as Armand reminds us there is no singular real that can be caught. A photograph is always a perspective too. A selection, composition and framing. Photography here stands in for memory in its mutability and as record, similar to Claudia's diary.
In this episode Louis develops a negative of himself, slowly emerging as a moment held in time, elusive perspective of Claudia as she might have seen Louis. Searching for his memory aswell as for remnants of Claudia, Louis finds meaning diffuse in the image, separated through time by 'a thin veil'. At the same time in Dubai Louis and Armand work on painting a picture held in a historical moment for their audience of one. And Daniel is, as Santiago adresses, complicit (repugnant, apalling) and at the same time a voyeur same as Louis in the rambles. As he tries to style himself the objective, cynical observer the bubbling of his own memories unsettles his composure.
Louis clings onto human life as he clings onto the camera, as Claudia calls him out "worshipping [his people pictures] in the red light". As a vampire living in a different temporal mode, humans will always be nothing more than a passing moment fixed in time, never a full picture.
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“vampires with hobbies…insanity🙄🙄” armand u run a weird little freak theater😐
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The memory of their beginning is rubbing off on present loumand hard because the way the stilted performance of last episode melted off so seamlessly I was astonished. They fell back into rhythm quickly and their reminiscing was kinda melancholic in some parts? In spite of all the mess that went down between 1945 and 2022 they're still longing so bad for what they once had but to acknowledge that is to confront being authors of said mess so here we are
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