A Girl Walks Home at Night is about a nameless Vampire referred to as “the girl” who roams the streets of Bad City at night stalking her victims. One of the first significant scenes was that of the pimp/drug dealer named Saeed not paying one of the prositutes Atti, her cut. It is after this scene that The Girl seduces him and murders him in his apartment. I think she was out to get revenge on behalf of Atti because like Atti, she puts Saeeds finger in her mouth only to bite it off and shove it back in his own mouth. Therefore maybe she has some sort of connection with Atti or sympathizes with her because in a conversation that the two have together they talk about forgetting what it is that they wanted.
The next significant scene of the movie is when one of the main character, Arash–a young man with a single dad addicted to heroine and gambling– and the Girl meet. They meet after Arash is rejected by a rich girl named Shaydah who likes to take drugs and having fun. He is on the street and asks the girl where they are. She responds Bad City. I think this is interesting because in the beginning there is a pit of dead bodies that no one seems to be disturbed by at all and this shows that bad deeds must be normalized where they are. Arash eventually embraces the Girl and this shows that the two must definitely care for one another. I almost want to say they were in love but not so much in the romantic sense since there wasn’t any clear reason why the two were drawn to each other other than perhaps the fact that they were both very lonely in this ghost town. Arash had no mother, his father was high most of the time and the girl Shaydah rejected him. Meanwhile the Girl spent most her time alone dancing to music until she eventually opens up and let’s Arash in. She even goes as far as to resist biting his neck and listens to his heart instead–the heart which often symbolizes warm feelings such as compassion and love.
I feel as though the Girl was somewhat of a vigilante given that she kills Arash’s father next for injecting Atti with heroine against her will. She also threatens the little boy to be a good boy for the rest of his life which I interpreted as a warning to him to not become a man like Saeed or Arash’s father who seem to hurt those around them.
The movie ends with Arash finding out his father is killed, asking the Girl to run away with him and then finding out that she was involved with the killing. He seems upset at first given that he pulls over and looks stressed, but then he comes back and looks at her like nothing is wrong. I think he might have been upset but somewhat glad that he no longer has to worry about his father because of her which is pretty morbid in my opinion because I actually felt quite bad for the father since he seemed to me like a victim of substance abuse and even said to his son that he wished he would die soon as to stop burdening Arash.
For what reason did the girl kill the homeless man despite being the only one who doesn’t visibly do anything wrong for the entirety of the film? What do you think the transvestite represented or what was their purpose?
A boy meets. SHe warns them to not abuse women
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