In Let the Right One In, a young man named Oskar falls in love with Eli, a vampire in the body of an adolescent girl. She's seen drinking or holding a glass of wine in almost every scene she's in. Fight Unscene: None of Abby's massacre of the bullies is portrayed the audience hears is their screams. As in his deeply unsettling Little Star, Lindqvist is concerned with the culling and cultivation of violence and violent impulses in youth, the ways in which an innocent love can tease out a terrifying true nature. Deliberate Values Dissonance: The remake has two instances of this, since it takes place in the 1980s. Needless to say, it pretty much ruins the impact of the character and buries the entire gender thread from the novel. Lesser known is the image of the vampire as a very cleverly veiled creature of sex; and nearly every aspect of the vampire somehow involves sex.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: - Thomas, despite the film implying that he's been harvesting people for Abby for decades, isn't terribly good at his job. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Abby seems very sweet and kind to Owen, but spends the film murdering perfectly innocent people, and its revealed that she groomed her present caretaker to kill for her since he was a child, and she doesn't treat him very well. This modern-day gothic story revolves around Oskar (KÃ¥re Hedebrant), a 12-year-old boy often bullied and tormented by his classmates, as he befriends the new next-door neighbor, Eli (Lina Leandersson). By being a vampire, the viewer holds Eli to other standards, and despite the murdering rampages out of necessity, Eli is portrayed as an overall likeable character. I imagined the way he'd beg forgiveness, the way he'd sob at my feet. She is vindicated as, for the first half of the movie when Owen simply tried to avoid the bullies, they tortured him endlessly, but when he slams a metal pole into Kenny's head they leave him alone. In his first scene, he knocks over the bottle of blood he had just gathered and nearly gets seen by a driver. When I saw original film, "Let the Right One In, " it was at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. She also doesn't seem to recognize how odd her behavior is, she walks around in her bare feet in the snow despite how odd it makes her look, after Thomas dies and she goes to Owen's room for comfort she sneaks into his bed after stripping naked and doesn't understand why Owen is shocked. She thinks everything is just fine and dandy with him. Nothing Owen says or does throughout the film indicates that he's particularly effeminate. Must Be Invited: The movie universe takes this rule very seriously. Danger Takes a Backseat: One of the most intense sequences in the film has Thomas hiding in the backseat of a car in order to kill someone for Abby to feed on.
From the audiences' lack of reaction, I'm assuming they had no idea why he had a look of surprise on his face. Women will melt watching this. Let the Right One In reinvigorates the seemingly tired vampire genre by effectively mixing scares with intelligent storytelling. On Halloween, he yanked my bag of candy out of my hand and stomped on it. The young actors are powerful in draining roles. Oskar is at that age when he accepts astonishing facts calmly, because life has given up trying to surprise him. We care for them more than they care for themselves. Despite being in the same class as 12-year-old Owen; they look like they're years older than he is. Judging by his phone call to his father, near the end of the movie, it's obvious he's considering the possibility that Abby is evil and struggling with that fact.
Shortly after this, the man tries to drain the blood of an unconscious young victim in the woods. His fear is not in the pain, but rather in what might happen if he were to fight back — not just the reaction it might spur in his bullies, but in what it could unleash inside of him. That's not to downplay the sweetness of the relationship between Eli and Oskar, because that element is certainly there. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can... Director: Tomas Alfredson.
In any other movie, Eli's arrival would soften Oskar. She herself doesn't seem to recognize the term and just replies that she needs blood to live. This is a different kind of horror than we saw in 2008's horror crop, which was dominated more or less by the ingenuity and massive success of Matt Reeves' Cloverfield (Reeves, oddly enough, would go on to helm Let Me In). Notably, he leaves Owen alone for the rest of the film until he has his older teenage brother backing him up. Sweet Tooth: Owen, despite being very skinny, is shown to have an enormous appetite for sweets. In this version, Owen's chased through a darkened locker room, then dragged screeching before they attempt to drown him.
Eli has a faint scent almost of a... corpse. He lives with his alcoholic mother, his parents are in the midst of a divorce and both are largely absent in his life, and every day at school he's abused, beaten and humiliated by bullies. Gender Flip: Abby here is 100% female. He's treated much more poorly by his parents. At any rate, if I'm going to be referencing any modern rock song, especially in a discussion about a Swedish film, chances are that it's by The Flower Kings, but I don't even know if they fit here, because as this film most definitely will most definitely you, Roine Stolt is probably the only modern Swedish artist whose efforts are upbeat, or rather, not deeply disturbing to some extent. Oskar has a neighbor who is eager to show the shy boy how to take a bite out of life. Throughout the film, Abby shows herself to be an extremely ruthless character, willing to send Thomas out to kill people, treats Thomas like a slave and is willing to kill people herself to stay alive but she is kind and protective towards Owen. However seeing as he's being tortured every day by bullies and isn't helped or protected in any way, it's probably the only way he knows how to cope with the constant abuse. Adaptational Attractiveness: - In the books Oscar is described as being overweight whereas Owen is very slender. Greater-Scope Villain: In a deleted scene, it's revealed Abby's uncle was a vampire who turned her after apparently raping her. So, does this mean that he's now just another familiar for Abby to use before he gets too old like Thomas? She usually mauls them like an animal until they die of blood loss or she finishes them off by snapping their necks, so they don't come back as a vampire. Then when he initiates a friendship pact with her, not knowing she's a vampire, she very nearly kills him by mistake. She kills and eats a human jogger when she gets hungry enough without thinking to hide the body afterwards.
They strike up a friendship and Oskar finds himself experiencing his first crush on her. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Owen pulls his knife on the four bullies when they corner him in the locker room... which does absolutely no good, as it's too small to do much damage. It's a Rubik's Cube. At first, she wants Owen to stand up to his bullies on his own, although she promises him if that doesn't work she'll defend him. When looking out into the apartment complex through his telescope, he spots a muscular man lifting weights. In the original, they were flawed but still loving parents. Whereas his Swedish counterpart, despite heavily implied to be an alcoholic, made the effort to see him every weekend. Kenny's obsession and love of hurting Owen overrides any common sense he might have to the point he threatened and moved to throw Owen into a frozen lake while a teacher was watching. However, he quickly accepts Abby's nature because she's the only person who's ever been kind to him. One day, my mother pulled me out of school in the middle of the day.
By an inquisitive poodle. When Kenny wounds his face, he orders Owen to lie to his mother about what happened. Notably, after Owen's called to the principal's office after defending himself against Kenny, all she can state is that he's "a good boy", never bothering to inquire why exactly her gentle, quiet son would attack someone. Mind you he is also being held down by a bigger teen's hand which could also drown him instead.
Despite having the appearance of being a 12-year-old girl, Eli constantly warns Oskar that she is not a girl as Oskar thinks; in fact, it is revealed to the audience that Eli holds the sinister secret of being a vampire. Depending on how you interpret the end of the film, that could also be the future fate of Owen. As with so many relationships, however, "a little while" is about to turn into "forever. Dragging Owen roughly over the tiles of the pool area as he screamed in pain/terror. It's a very sweet and touching end to the film. Protagonist Journey to Villain: A very tragic case with Owen, despite being a kind, innocent boy he was already showing signs of snapping from the abuse he was enduring at the hands of Kenny (i. fantasizing about killing him constantly, even re-enacting it with a knife) and Abby's appearance in his life just accelerated it.
When she sees the cut on Owen's cheek, she immediately suggests to Owen that he hit his bullies back. Yes, it turns out this girl, Eli is, in fact, a 220-year old vampire and, in a trans twist, was born male. When her middle-aged servant Hakan fails to bring Eli her sustenance, she is forced to hunt for herself, and, in a rather startling scene, hunts down and kills a jogger with snarling ferocity. Abby decided to ask further about whether Owen would still like her if she wasn't a girl (i. that she's a vampire, not a normal human). Innocent Blue Eyes: Owen, despite developing several psychological quirks due to the loneliness and abuse he endures, is the most innocent, gentle-hearted character in the film and he has light greenish blue eyes. Most disturbingly at the end, when Owen has recovered from his near drowning Abby's bare feet, drenched in blood appear and she picks him up by his head to look at her. And this accomplished what... trans erasure? Eli tells Oskar that he should stand up against the three boys who bully him. But I've been this age for a very long time. Darker and Edgier: To a degree, while it tones down the moral ambiguity of the film in many ways it's a darker story. He can also be heard begging Abby to spare him when she comes to rescue Owen.
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