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