Jul. 25th, 2009 @ 03:09 am "Let The Right One In"
I just watched this movie with friends and am totally in love with it. As in, I think I'm going to have to buy it when it comes out. (And the number of movie DVDs I own can fit on half a shelf.

If anyone else has seen it and wants to discuss, here's your chance because I love it on so many levels.



There are so many things I love about this movie! First off, the pallette and feel of the cinematography. The set up of the characters. The incredible acting, especially by the actors who played Oskar and Eli. And I love love LOVE the way it screwed with power balances! It wasn't as obvious in the movie that Eli's 'pop' was actually a pedophile, tho it was hinted at, and as gross as that is, it was pretty obvious that she was the one who held the power in that relationship. For a somewhat bloody vampire movie, I also found it amazingly subtle. Even though you could figure out early on that Eli was a vampire (even w/o knowing beforehand) every time I saw her display a typical vampire power, it was somehow a surprise.

There were so many good scenes I'm hard put to name a favorite, but I'd probably have to with the sequence where Eli shows up at the hospital to ask about her 'Dad' and ends up with her crawling into bed with Oskar. That may be the tenderest, most heart-breaking/warming pillow talk scene ever. I was hugging myself and getting a bit misty-eyed at the part where Oskar said 'Do I have a chance with you?' and Eli saying she wasn't a girl doesn't make him change his stance one bit. The only other scene that really competes with that one, to my mind, is the climactic scene at the pool. Hello, US filmmakers? PAY ATTENTION TO THE EFFING SWEDES! THIS IS HOW YOU DO CLIMACTIC VIOLENCE! OMGWTFBBQSLDHG;A;BALN;ABJKFN;BAHAF;!!!!!!

Right now, I can only think of 2 very tiny complaints about the film. First, I really didn't think we needed the shot where Oskar gets a look at what is (or rather isn't) between Eli's legs, and the Oskar/Eli Exterior deleted scene *really* should have been left in, because it helps set up the bed scene. WHY did they cut that???? Also, did anyone else understand WTF happened in the second scene with Oskar's dad? This unnamed weird looking guy just SHOWS UP and he and the Dad start drinking and... I really didn't get the significance there. Were the two guys supposed to be lovers or something? Dunno.



Right now, I'm vacillating on whether I even want to see the US remake when it comes out, but I probably will, just so I can see what horrors they've wrought upon it. I think that will be after it comes out on DVD tho, because I could see myself getting tossed out of the theater for screaming incoherently.

So, anyone else who saw it: what did y'all think?
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From:[info]iheartbowie
Date: July 27th, 2009 - 05:36 am
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You were much more generous than I was about this movie. This whole movie messed with my head that by the end of it I couldn't really claim that it was good.

It's been weeks since I saw it so I can't really pin point anything specific since I have the worst memory, so my arguments will hardly be as valid as they should be. We had gone to see it at one of those rinky dink theaters in Atlanta that show all of the fancy foreign films because our friend (who's from Sweden) insisted that it was worth it. Of course, I was the only one that was just not happy with it by the end.

I think the worst of it was that it just seemed to keep going and didn't end. I was so ready for it to finally reach it's end and then it just kept going. They had such an interesting and morbidly dark story concept. Unhappy boy meets way to escape...and the horrible and almost pointless death of the boys at the end. And now I've really done a fantastic job of losing track of my thoughts. I really should just keep my mouth shut...or try not to give bad opinions when watching Doctor Who...I think I'm going to go with the last one. Sorry. ^_^;;;;
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From:[info]aizome
Date: July 29th, 2009 - 08:12 am
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Just poking my nose in to say, Don't read the book then. ^^ It's much, much harder to get through. While I did enjoy both the film and the book for different reasons, the book damned nearly killed me. D:
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From:[info]iheartbowie
Date: July 29th, 2009 - 12:25 pm
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XD I think I'll remember that.
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From:[info]aizome
Date: July 29th, 2009 - 08:15 am
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Which DVD are you referring to? 'Cause the DVD of what you've seen has been out for several months. I just picked it up this past weekend.

IDK about a remake. Not sure if my heart can take yet another version of it! (lol)
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From:[info]nehalenia
Date: July 29th, 2009 - 08:20 am
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It's whichever DVD Netflix sent us. Apparently there was an initial version of the subs, and then a later, more correct version. I'm still not sure which one we looked at, but the movie was fairly understandable, except for a few small things.
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From:[info]aizome
Date: July 29th, 2009 - 08:43 am
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Have you a Best Buy or Circuit City near you? I got my copy at Best Buy this past weekend. Same as what I saw on Netflix. Tho I can't see how there would be much of a difference, really. :D