Authentic Connection

Sean Bateman: 

Are you here for that class? 

Lauren Hynde: 

The tutorial on the post modern condition? It's been cancelled. 

Sean Bateman: 

Typical. 

Lauren Hynde: 

I haven't seen you in it before. 

Sean Bateman: 

That's what's so typical. This was the first time I bothered to show up. 

Lauren Hynde: 

You've got bad timing. 

Sean Bateman: 

Saturdays suck. 

I don't have to put up with this bullshit. 

I'm dropping this class. 

Lauren Hynde: 

Me too. 

Sean Bateman: 

Really?

Lauren Hynde: 

Yeah. I think I'm gonna change my major. 

Sean Bateman: 

To what? 

Lauren Hynde: 

I don't know yet. 

What's yours? 

Sean Bateman: 

I don't even know.

Sean Bateman: 

I wonder if Lauren goes wild during sex. I wonder if she comes easily. Or at all. I won't go to a bed with a girl who doesn't. If I can't make a girl come, then why bother? It's like asking questions in a letter.

Hm, I'm hungry.

Sean Bateman: 

A great numb feeling washes over me
as I let go of The Past and look forward to The Future. 

Pretend to be a vampire. 

I don't really need to pretend, because
It's Who I Am, an Emotional Vampire. 

I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. 

That I was born This Way. 
That I feed off of other people's Real Emotions. 

Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?

Writer/director Roger Avary has this to say on the character of Sean Bateman: 

"He calls himself a Vampire, 

but more than that, he's a shark. 

 

He dies if he slows down, a consuming machine. 

He needs to experience moment to moment, 

second to second or he dies. 

By the time you reach the mid-point of the film his character is consumed with the idea of being loved and of loving, but 

he is still the shark, he's still a monster. 

Then he sees himself through the eyes of his loved one, and it completely transforms him.

The shark is hurt, he's contemplative. 

His is the only character that changes his destiny. 

What has become of Sean Bateman at the end of the film? 

Nobody can say for sure. 

Has he been transformed for the better or for the worse? 

Where is he headed on the motorcycle on that blizzard of a night? 

Will he hide from his pain, revisit it upon others,
or become The Man He Had Never Been?"