"Let The Right One In"

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

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?

Cries and Whispers

"Let The Right One In"