ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the film Only Lovers Left Alive which is a peculiar love story by Jim Jarmusch, who is well-known as one of the most prominent independent film-makers of contemporary American cinema. The film deals with the relationship between two undying loving vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), and how they behave in the contemporary world. Great film directors have interpreted vampirism in accordance with their world views and often work in the wake of the influential tradition of gothic and horror novels, while others, like Abel Ferrara, use this myth to discuss social and moral topics. The main metaphorical blending the film stages can be summarised by the expression ‘Time Is a Flat Circle’. As the film’s title highlights, it is through the productive value of love, for others and for life, that we can affirm new realities and respond to situations of total passivity, allowing existence to endure and transform itself.
