![]() Which is one reason why so much of the new Netflix action film, The Old Guard (premiering July 10), works well on me. I’m always drawn to stories about people who can’t die, who roam the Earth for centuries, weary of the world but somehow still engaged, curious about what may lie around the next corner of time. It’s probably better to have things be the way they are. ![]() Sure, we can’t live like them, but look how sad they are. There’s an allure to these stories-wouldn’t it be such a freeing joy to know we are eternal?-and also a comfort taken in the undying’s melancholy. To be immortally young is to float above the petty ephemera of most people’s short lives, to consider a bigger picture-one both grand and terrifying. What a cursed fantasy agelessness is, one reiterated and reimagined many times since Bram Stoker introduced modern audiences to florid psychosexual vampirism.
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