Let the Right One In
Added 2023-10-31 15:36:32 +0000 UTCA chilling, borderline uncomfortable coming-of-age story! I enjoyed this very much, it was skillfully shot and that story definitely sticks with you. Thanks for the request from DroidC for a perfect ending to October!
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I assumed an American remake would be bad but I might check it out if you say it's good
Rhetorical Thrill
2023-11-01 01:27:19 +0000 UTCSuch a great movie, love the themes and you see how the start and end of the relationship will go. I like both the original and american version. Story is better in OG, but the acting Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins I think are way better acting wise in the american remake. Some of the weirder parts of the OG on, hospital scenes do not make it into the american version(called Let Me In).
Solain
2023-11-01 00:11:44 +0000 UTCFor finding as dark and bleak as I did, this is one I feel like I could watch again. There's so much nuance and intricacy to it. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about Eli, but I lean a bit more toward her being malevolent. As much as Oskar is groomed by her, I feel like he's got a real dark streak to him that is willing to embrace it.
Rhetorical Thrill
2023-10-31 20:41:17 +0000 UTCI like your interpretation of the bed sharing scene, and your thoughts on the logistics of it all. That's why I wondered if maybe Eli had been left on her own and not really taught how to handle that existence.
Rhetorical Thrill
2023-10-31 20:38:10 +0000 UTCI love this movie! I am not sure when it was set, (from the clothes, haircuts,visible tech and the radio broadcast that mentioned Brezhnev I am guessing late 70s) andI have never read the novel it is based on. I understand that in the novel it was very clear that Eli and Oskar cared about each other but I didn't get that from the film. Eli struck me as utterly evil. She seemed not care at all about her familiar (constantly berating him, draining his blood and unceremoniously dumping his body - not quite Dead - outside the hospital.) He was clearly slowing down and becoming less useful to her. As soon as Oskar shows signs of becoming a psychopath she reveals herself to him, and grooms him to act on his violent impulses. Oskar is isolated from anyone but Eli and at the end accepts the role of familiar, mistaking it for intimacy. In my interpretation - which some people disagree with, Eli is a fiend. I feel that the alcoholics are present to provide contrast to Eli and Oskar. One tries to help Eli before being murdered. Another is willing to give up his most prized possession in order to invest in a future with the woman he loved. That woman (after being attacked by Eli) deliberately sacrifices her life rather than becoming like Eli. I get you questioning why anybody would choose to become a vampire. I think that only a monster would.
Michael Nolan
2023-10-31 19:36:46 +0000 UTCI hope you liked it! You hit the nail on the head, your hypothesis at the end where you stated you thought he was going to be the new “old man” was dead on in my eyes. The film is very dark in certain ways, but also has a tang of adolescent “finding yourself”, offset by childlike innocence, all interwoven by horrific violence. I never found it especially bleak, but you can definitely see it through that lense if you try to, Oskar’s new life is sure to be bloody and murderous. It is supposed to creep you out to a certain extent, it’s not very subtle about the horrid things that take place. And the scene where she got in bed with him.. I’ve read a few things about that scene, there’s a couple different interpretations but in my eyes I think it’s supposed to get across the platonic nature that Oskar’s childlike mentality views the world with- contrasted by his darker side. There’s a streak of realism across the film as well that makes you think about the logistics and very real challenges being a vampire would entail. Most films seem to gloss over the whole murdering people thing, whereas it takes a leading role in this film. From the Jacques, the man killed in the beginning, to the bullies at the end, they all had families and lives and goals and motivations, that were all brought to violent ends to sate the hunger of one entity. It’s a weird mishmash of conflicting ideas and themes that coalesces in this unique film. Thank you for your reaction!
DroidC
2023-10-31 17:34:18 +0000 UTC
