this kid is amazing

This film is easily on my top ten for the year.  wait top 5 maybe.

As with every good vampire flick I expect religious imagery and some amazing cinematography.  This film delivered all of that and more.  Let The Right One In has simply become my favorite vamp flick.  This film rose above the others for one simple reason.  It isn’t shot like a vampire flick and there are no Victorians.  Seriously I love vamp flicks so much I even watched Twilight…yea I  know 20 years in purgatory for admitting that.

Spoilers as usual:

In this film we see some great storytelling that is subtle and delicate.  What we have is a film that allows us to see a new side of the vampire mythos.  The idea of a vampire that doesn’t want or like to kill is a tired one, this story takes it to a new place.  We start off with a pathetic person incapable of defending himself, Oskar.  He has hate bursting from him but is unable to act on his urges.  When he meets Eli, a 12 (120) year old girl, she urges him to hit back, to hit harder than he dares.

It’s not that Eli is unwilling to kill its that she rather wouldn’t.  She is a parasite on one boy a generation.  Eli feeds off of the love that Oskar gives her just as much as she feeds off of the blood of victims.  Her relationship is perfectly beneficial to Oskar.  She teases with her emotions, her body, and her strength.  Eli has to choose weak individuals with potential.  This is a tragic story for the heroes. Both of them get what they want but they will both suffer.  I only hope that Morse code lets then fall in love!

let me know what you think!

about the most blood you'll see in the film

I really hope other people have seen this documentary cause I have never heard anyone talk about  it.  it shows the realty of working in the Industry and creating a reality show.  It follows 2 writer/producers Gil and Dave through their time trying to be legitimized by the larger production companies by pitching reality TV shows so that they can finally produce their own scripted drama.  It tracks their progress and failure.

Gil and Dave have a n interesting relationship.  On the surface and in the pitching room they are of one mind they work together like lifelong friends. The minute that they leave the pitching offices you can see the differences in their morality and their ideas.  although they both say that they are wiling to do anything to sell a script it seems that only Gil is really willing to take that seriously.  Gil will throw out dangerous ideas that could be dangerous for their reputation.

American Cannibal is the name of the reality show that they accidentally sell as a joke to a porn producer.  Gil was joking around at the wrong moment to the wrong person while Dave the married guy who is already apprehensive and worried about meeting with KB (the porn guy) sits in the office totally embarrassed at his surroundings.

The pitch that Gil tosses out is a starvation contest like survivor but living with a cannibal family on an island where cannibalism is legal.  If that doesn’t sound bad then wait till you hear KB ‘s reaction.  it was absurdly excited and he was wanting to find the sickest people he could to be contestants so that maybe someone would at least eat a finger or something.  sick. sick. sick. and that’s where the story starts.

You might think that this could be a comedy, and at times it almost is.  What this really is though is a very serious and horribly depressing examination of the human condition.  Gil and Dave are desperately trying to be recognized by the people they respect.  They know how to do it and they are almost good at it.  they continue to settle for lower and lower standards in their pursuit.  They do this until they end up being creators of the same type of media that they joked about and hated early in the documentary.

Dave and Gil were torn apart through this experience and it slowly reveals to the audience how gradual your life can change and how small choices can destroy who you are.  This film is one of those rare films that you people should watch so that they don’t make mistakes like these guys did.  it really is exemplary of what cinema should be.  Documentaries have a special place with me because they get to be a little more heavy handed.

The real sad story is the subtle one of KB.  this is a man who is just a terrible person he is really just rotten and sleazy.  But he has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old.  He is like a child begging for attention and has no idea how to get it.  Everything he does is wrong.  It’s truly sad.  after finishing the film I just wanted to find him and try and help him because I felt terrible after the film.

Watch this movie and let me know what you think.  I’m curious as to what others are thinking.

OK so people are a little reactionary.

LA Times has a full story.

“Christian Bale attended a London police station today on a voluntary basis,” the statement read. “Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police.”

So he went in of his own volition.

Apparently he also has a history of having a rocky relationship with his sisters and mother.  Although one sister he has lived and worked with in LA.  Sounds to me like family causes problems sometimes.  Go figure, he is a real person and lives lives like the rest of us.

My advice for all of us is to leave it be and let a man who values privacy keep some.