I clicked the spoiler box because, basically nothing happens in this movie and some may consider that in itself to be a spoiler. Nothing happens that is, but the perambulations of a very weird young man who is "sort of" a vampire but most of the time is a downcast boy looking for sympathy. Why? He does commit some murders but we are supposed to see them as justified. Such justification as there is occurs only because a genre of vampire movies has sprung up in which vampires are basically the good guys--oppressed minorities--who are misunderstood. Once seen as purely evil characters who fully justified their flaming ends (they were usually burned up with dawn's early light), I suppose the dilution of moral categories which has been the result of our relativistic, therapeutic culture, has also lead to the "destigmatization" of the vampire archetype--to use academic mumbo jumbo.
I suppose you could say he is kind of a symbol for his generation: epicene, scrawny, scruffy, hangdog with no point or purpose in life, doing nothing except having a little dull sex in a small town. His mystery or supernatural nature is not enough to hold one's attention. I kept waiting for some action and some reason to be interested in Rufus but he lets you down; including an ending to the movie that is both improbable and corny.
I suppose you could say he is kind of a symbol for his generation: epicene, scrawny, scruffy, hangdog with no point or purpose in life, doing nothing except having a little dull sex in a small town. His mystery or supernatural nature is not enough to hold one's attention. I kept waiting for some action and some reason to be interested in Rufus but he lets you down; including an ending to the movie that is both improbable and corny.
