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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
This evening I finally saw the film version of this rather excellent novel, and thought it was astonishing. The two young leads are amazing (particulaly the actress who plays "Eli"), the sense of sadness and longing is heartbreaking, the ending is brilliantly done, and the whole thing is also very creepy and oddly beautiful. Loved it. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Knew you would. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I thought the film reflected our relationship beautifully, Simon. With me in the role of Eli, of course.  | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Actually, I think we're more like Edward and Bella. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
[ *** SPOILER ALERT *** ] I now think of 'Let The Right One In' not as a love story but as a seduction story. Eli is pure evil and the boy is sucked into her survival plans in exactly the same way her former human attendant must have been when he was a similar age. Makes the story so much creepier don't you think... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.152.191.22 |
She was lonely. What else could s/he do? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.79.235.202 |
While I enjoyed this movie, I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd hoped I would. Saw it at the cinema, late at night. Didn't help I'd read the book first, I suppose. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 64.228.140.141 |
My feelings exactly, Mark. I also read the book first. It's a good film, yes. The book, as is often the case, is better. **SPOILER ALERT** The book does a much better job of portraying Eli's ambiguous sexuality. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.20.22 |
*** SPOILER *** Haven't read the book but I took from the film that this was the girl's way of acquiring a new human servant to protect her body during the day. I believe her interest in the boy and protection of him was because she recognised a vulnerable soul she could mould to her purpose. No? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
IMHO, this is one of those rare occasions where the film is better than the book (I only decided this today, in hindsight) - the historical flashbacks in the novel are unnecessary, and spoil the ambiguity, and it's over-long. Also, there were a few scenes in the book where it almost lurched into sentimentality, but the film never came close. Small niggles, yes, but I thought the film did a good job of editing the story down to the essentials. *** SPOILER *** I do think they should have kept some of the peodophile overtones in he film, though; these were horrifying in the book. |