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Directed By
Tomas Alfredson
Written By:
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Cast:
Mikael Rahm, Pale Olofsson, Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Karl-Robert Lindgren, Anders T. Peedu, Cayetano Ruiz, Mikael Erhardsson, Soren Kallstigen, Malin Cederblad, Lena Nilsson, Adam Stone, Jonas Kruse, Kent Rishaug, Linus Hanner, Thomas Ljungman, Julia Nilsson, Bengt Bylund, Susanne Ruben, Per Ragnar, Ika Nord, Pale Olofsson, Patrik Rydmark, Rasmus Luthander, Berndt Ostman, Kajsa Linderholm, Ingemar Raukola, Fredrik Ramel, Christoffer Bohlin, Elin Almen, Elif Ceylan
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Let the Right One in (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
March 16th, 2009
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Perhaps what distracted me from giving this movie a higher rating was the fact that I watched it dubbed, something that distracts the viewer from the dramatic tension somewhat. The voices seem paranormal over the moving lips of the actors and considering that the characters include a 12 year old female vampire, the last thing you want is added oddness that isn't intentional.
That said, the movie is amazingly gripping in its parallel levels of absurdity and normalcy. A young boy who finds himself the target of bullies at school makes an unlikely friend of the girl who moves in next door to his apartment. The girl insists that she can't be his friend but is sadly lonely and detached even for her status as part of the undead. In many ways, these two very strange young people end up having the most compelling romance that I watched in all of 2008, if not of all time.
Their basics are stripped bare. They know of the difficulties with their situation and yet persist. Because of their age, there is more natural chastity than with vampire situations manipulated in the TWILIGHT series. But also because of their age, their motives are more instinctively chosen, not pondered over and fretted about. They care about one another because they simply feel that if they don't, no one else will.
The movie was really addictive as the story progressed, leaving me only to wonder if the non-dubbed version would have won me over just a little bit more.
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 | Chris
Mar 18, 2009 11:27 PM
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| I think the non dubbed version would have won you over more. One of the great films of last year! |
 | Bobby B
Mar 23, 2009 3:56 AM
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Did you ever wonder if this was how she seduced that strange old man who killed people for her? Maybe she met him when he was twelve, he was lonely, put upon. She saved him and he fell in love with her and then became her willing slave for life? DoS you think that might be the fate in store for Oskar?
Stunning movie. |
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