Let the Right One In: Donner's Movie Reviews

Donner watches a strange movie from a strange land. Prepare for a journey into a great movie you might have missed and more Twilight bashing!

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[Celly222]

@ibez07 In the book it was a boy who was castrated by the dominant vampire a couple hundred years ago. They did a quick flash scene of a scar in the genital area and she says "im not a girl" in the movie but it could be taken as meaning she is much older than just a girl.

I like to think of her as a girl. A female played the part, therefore, the hell with the weird book stuff lol.

[supermonkeyman118]

@veronicachic actually it got huge recognition in sweden but the american audience is too fucked up over twilight that they cant see pure gold when its in their face

[evertonjf08]

Amazing!

[dzikigrzechotnik]

@mbsfaridi Which only pushes the interpretation of her being manipulative and evil down our throats. In the original - maybe she is, maybe she isn't, and maybe she is both, which makes her character so much more complex and real. You are shown what it could really mean to be a vampire and you can relate to her, in the remake you mostly get a paper monster exactly because of scenes like the one you mentioned.

[mbsfaridi]

@dzikigrzechotnik

Things like when he goes in Abby's apartment and he see's a picture of the old man with her

[dzikigrzechotnik]

@mbsfaridi things such as...?

[LilacsandLilies]

It does have some homosexual and pedophilia contents, and there is also some terrifyingly gruesome scenes. But I honestly think this is one of the best vampire books ever written, and Hakan might be the most terrifying vampire ever created.

[LilacsandLilies]

@Celly222 Read the fucking book!.... It's not weird. It's probably the best horror literature to come out in ages. John Lindqvist is a exceptional writer. In the first couple of pages he describes The Creation of Adam, it’s probably one of the most beautiful passages I have ever read.

[JeffTheDudeAbides]

You know my biggest problem with the Twilight series, other than it being terribly vapid and written like one of those "create your own adventure books" for women, there are no real threats for the characters to have to struggle through. They have no real weakness, no real enemies, they can walk in the daylight. Where are the human villains?

[TheMiningManiac]

Am I the only one who thought this was meh

[mediaboxy]

@Celly222 Hey I'm a heterosexual male, but even I can see the importance the expressed situational love. Loving unconditionally I guess. Reminds me of the Crying Game kinda.

[GnosticAtheist]

@chorizo1337 You should stop taking acid, it aint for everyone. LTROI is a devious flick, with one of the best endings in a long time (and I am not talking about the swimmingpool horror scene, but the "oh I just replaced that pedo as the slave of the vampire"). Failure to see the sweetness in this is only your problem.