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Iron Man
Disappointed.
{Sheila Broflovsky} what what WHAAAAAAAAT????? {/Sheila Broflovsky}
Iron Man
Disappointed.
That one shot with Oskar underwater and all of the craziness happening around him was sublime and totally made up for any OTT at the end for me. Man, I have a feeling this will stick with me for a bit.
Let the Right One In SPOILERS to follow...
Okay, so I saw this today, and personally I would have ended the thing when Eli left town, the final shot seeing Oskar's handprint dissipate from the window. I really thought it was going to cut to black right there.
What comes after feels a bit tacked on, unnecessary. What's the lesson there, that there's no point in standing up to bullies, because their older brothers are going to come and permanently maim you if you do? I'm having a hard time buying the threat of real violence that was going on there. Maybe things are different in Sweden--I thought they just fucked a lot up there to deal with all the shitty weather.
Anyway, so obviously there's no way Oskar is going to be able to explain away four dead bodies (why was the innocent weird guy taken out too?), espeically when he's already on watch for hitting that kid the first time. So he skips town and him and Eli are going to live off her dirty money? It was an original ending but a bit too goofy after the tender sadness preceding it. Just didn't ring true.
Having said that, what a marvelous film.
. . . and the final moments of the film were enough to have me leave with . . . the desire to act like James Bond for the rest of the night.
I mean, she only really says that man was her father at the hospital, because... how else do you explain a relationship between an older man and a 12 year old in public without any questions. I think his disposition and reactions through the film would imply my interpretation rather successfully, especially considering the parallelism of the relationship with Oskar which is more explicitly illustrated.
Maybe. I'm not sure the whole "not a girl thing" (if you're referring mostly to her comment and her lack of... well you know) has as much to do with sex as it does being a human. And I think when she asks him is he would still like her if she weren't a girl, she was really asking if he would still like her if he knew she were a vampire, a guised search for reassurance.
Well I mean, going by what little I know of vampire mythology if she were a human and got turned into a vampire, her "sex" would remain the same yes? Meaning her general biology and body type, since I'm guessing vampires lack genre or something? I really don't know enough to say. We did see glimpses of her body changing a bit though when she was feeding, so I'm guessing her transformation into a vampire causes some physical changes as well, notably the disappearance of her genitals, though I assumed that basically she was still "female" in the human sense....
Confusing. Who knows.
But the cats attacking that woman was probably the one point in the film I was a little bit unsure of its direction. Thankfully it came to a brilliant conclusion. Maybe it was just how bizarrely CG they all looks when attacking her. Conceptually though, yes. Pretty badass. Not nearly as badass as her bursting into flames though.
A Swedish vampire film called "Let the Right One In". Great take on the genre. The other is one of my favorite films in quite a while, "Slumdog Millionaire". Despite my obvious proclivity to the subject matter (game show contestant/scandal), it is a marvelous piece of cinema with all elements clicking - music, plot, cinematography, acting, etc. can't recommend it highly enough
What did you think of Casino Royale?
I didn't love it, but I would have given it 6/10 rather than 4/10.