Natalie

Very cool mood and style. First and foremost a meditation on class, as the implausibly-wealthy-for-an-academic Hess lives off the lifeblood of the poor people he interacts with and Ganja signals her willingness to participate with a speech explicitly about how she looks out for herself first. But it's also notable that everyone who's killed is killed in proximity to sex, that the unsettlingly-upbeat hunger theme builds along with the eros. The hunger to join with being overcome by the hunger to consume. An escape from the cycle linked not with violence from without but with acceptance of salvation from within.