Touched by Eternity

Latvian vampires up the ante by combining immortality and livelihood, in Mārcis Lācis's blood-sucking comedy - from the Baltic Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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Fatso (Andris Keišs) lives a terribly unhappy life. He lives alone in his mobile home crypto-trading on his computer with a strange podcast on the pursuit of immortality running in the background. He dresses as if leaving his home never crosses his mind, and the show he fanboys for is predictably unpredictable conspiracy junk. The first time Lācis introduces it is through an episode where guests claim to have found a fungus whose yeast unlocks the gift of eternal life. Fatso orders the special yeast in bulk and bites into it like beef jerky in front of an over-curious delivery man. The delivery man, a normal person who has never eaten raw yeast before, wants in on the fun and asks for a bite. He ends up foaming out of the mouth with yeast poisoning when two vampires, Egons (Ivars Krasts) and Carlos (Edgars Samītis), show up and offer Fatso true immortality. They say he is the “chosen one.”

His vampiric guests speak in vague niceties like “your life will become dynamic and full,” knowing full well that his current life is marked more by boredom and scarcity. They may call him the chosen one but what they really mean is his life is so devoid of human interaction and meaning that he would have little to adapt to when crossing over the mortality threshold.

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