How many of us can actually bear the loneness of being isolated most of the time, without anyone to talk to, no one to play with, being in a broken family, being bullied, being ignored or just simply being ALONE?
“Let the right one in” is talking about a vampire moving in to a town living next to a 12-year-old boy who is always being bullied at school and how they develop a relation between a vampire and a human. However, this is not a typical romance story, it’s more about life and how people deal with their difficulties.
There are a lot of mysteries in “Let the right one in”, like Eli’s guardian, some critics said he was her father, I’m not sure whether I missed that or not, I’ve just never come across it mentioning anything about his true identity. Second, Eli’s sex, from the appearance she obviously looks like a girl. However, when Oscar asks her to be his girlfriend, she just keep saying she is not a girl, but never did mention once what is she. Eli once asked Oscar “Will you still love me if I’m not a girl?” The direct deliberately cast a feminine girl instead of an androgynous boy (as in the original), as he doesn’t want it instantly fall into the homosexual genre, as it will distract the understanding of the message behind. Third is how she turned into a vampire in such a young age. How long has she been 12? What is hidden behind?
We are only looking at a specific part of her life, which intersected with Oscar’s in this story. Oscar’s life is equally full of mysteries and intriguing, too. Somehow you will sympathize with the whole situation. What he has been through. When you are the victim at school, no one would want to be friends with you, as they don’t want to be the target as well. When you are living in a single-parent family. There is no one to talk to at home, as your mum is always out working to support the family. What you really need is a FRIEND, no matter she is human or not.
Solitary is always what most of the people are avoiding, we are always trying to fit in, belong to somewhere. No matter how much you say you don’t want any friend, deep down you are as eager as anybody else. At least most of us are trying to find someone or just even one person in the world to understand what we are going through, what we really need. Like Eli and Oscar they both seem to understand each other perfectly, of cause we could not expect someone to trust you right away, we have to give time to do the magic for us, most of the time we just can’t rush, sometime a few straggling or uncertainties are inevitable. Is a matter of how you handle it.
I have to say the two young actors in this movie perform magnificently, I have leant that the casting for this movie was a year long, open call in many places and finally ended up with Kåre Hedebran as Oscar and Lina Leandersson as Eli. I just love how pale Hedebran was in the movie, even paler then Leandersson. They both make the story much more believable by their gesture and the little squint of their eyes. Sometimes working with young actors is a bit of a challenge, as they tend to overact most of their parts as they are trying to impress. Nevertheless in this case both of them just delivered without trying too hard.
This is more than just a common Vampire-Human romance story. Giving it this caption might kill your appetite for watching this movie. But I can assure you this is beyond the ones currently being shown.
An American version is scheduled to be released on October 1, 2010. Few alterations were made to be more palatable for worldwide audiences. Taking the place of Eli is Chloe Moretz (Hit girl in Kick Ass). Being recently involved in a violence superhero flick there is no doubt she would not deliver as a cold-blooded vampire. Somehow I just can’t picture her a softer side of Eli, as the Swedish version Eli looks more like a vampire, Motetz to me is more of a typical American girl. Don’t really know what to expect but we’ll see.
Bought the book! Will work on it soon!
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