Saturday, June 16, 2012

Ray Bradbury Theater - 2x05 - The Man Upstairs

    An annoying little boy, staying in a boarding house in France with a relative, is concerned about a new visitor.  He has suspicious behavior, and may be a vampire.

    While I wasn't bothered by this episode, I was disappointed with how little development the story had.  There doesn't seem to be much tension, since it moves too fast to care about what's happening.  The protagonist is a pest, even if you weren't the vampire he was out to annoy.
    The ending is strange.  The boy decides to perform some surgery on the vampire.  This seems to involve cutting out his heart, which is a strange organ.  It looks like it might be two hearts connected by a chamber?
    When police come to look at the body, which has been sewn up, I think it's implied that the vampire is dead, even if we see his eyes twitch.  Then it's revealed that the boy dumped a collection of silver into the cavity left in the chest.
    What's peculiar about this is that the police don't seem to care that this boy cut up someone on a hunch that he was a vampire.  Even if the police agree that he was a vampire, does that mean he doesn't have rights?

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