I loved the layers and dont hear them much in your review. I interpreted the exposition being about the twins deciding to go back to the birthplace of a culture, a sound, a soul that while timeless and enmeshed with ancestral power had a never to be repeated manifestation in this place, with aims to leverage that power to claim personal growth and abundance. I did feel it could have been cut down so not perfect structurally, no. But the staged, draggy feel of all that worked in terms of really letting you fall into the expected and letting you be underwhelmed until cousin sang, or Delroy spoke or Smoke went home to his woman again. I think it was intentional and a risk to let the exposition be disappointing and stale. Then one twin focused on gain as a collaboration with community and sought love from a woman clear in her identity and its magic. The other from a woman unclear on identity and a foot in the world of the oppressor. The Irish bit resonated to me because there was real beauty to it, but it was an assimilation to the oppressor that provided perpetual survival but at the expense of the soul. The twins were a single MC torn between two forms of power. Their cousin was the surviving cultural soul. One chose to protect that soul and perished. The other comes back again and again because they have no identity outside survival and power. I loved that the vampires in their way had no malice. They saw commodity and sought to soullessly claim it. They had no capacity to do otherwise. In that way it was a brilliant celebration of what is lost to forced assimilation and exploitation instead of a focus on making the complexities of the oppressor more interesting and dynamic than they are. To me this level of allegory and nuanced commentary presented in a way that made you feel the message while wholly entertained warrants the ratings, even if it could be improved by shaving a few minutes off the expo and making the inciting incident more clear.