So how would YOU portray vampires?

[Kegg]

Also as Mark Kermode says its good to have a Vampire film that isn't actually about sex.

Wait, what?

I think I saw a completely different movie. You didn't think there was any chemistry between the boy and the girl? Really? Or am I the only guy who saw the film that way? I thought it was very early pubescent in that regard - handled with a little subtelty, sure, and hardly crass, but not absent.

On the subject of serial killers and werewolves I think there are some differences.

Well yeah, serial killers don't literally become hairy wolfmen. But they're pragmatic rather than ethical differences, I think.

 

[Starkers]

Also as Mark Kermode says its good to have a Vampire film that isn't actually about sex.

Wait, what?

I think I saw a completely different movie. You didn't think there was any chemistry between the boy and the girl? Really? Or am I the only guy who saw the film that way? I thought it was very early pubescent in that regard - handled with a little subtelty, sure, and hardly crass, but not absent.

There was a relationship there, but it was quite innocent in many ways, and its worth noting that

Spoiler: spoiler for let the right one in

she isn't actually a girl, I had to rewind the DVD to confirm what I'd seen because it is blink and you miss it. First off she acttually says she isn't a girl, but then later he peers in through the door while she's changing ad you see her groin, there's basically a large vertical scar where a penis and testicles would have been. Yes he wants them to be goind steady, but his view of this is very naive and innocent, and seems to involve more of an emotional relationship than a physical one. From her perspective she doesn't want a lover, she wants a new protector to replace the older guy she came into town with (who was probably once where Oskar is now)

 

[DevilEyes]

Also as Mark Kermode says its good to have a Vampire film that isn't actually about sex.

Wait, what?

I think I saw a completely different movie. You didn't think there was any chemistry between the boy and the girl? Really? Or am I the only guy who saw the film that way? I thought it was very early pubescent in that regard - handled with a little subtelty, sure, and hardly crass, but not absent.

There was a relationship there, but it was quite innocent in many ways, and its worth noting that

Spoiler: spoiler for let the right one in

she isn't actually a girl, I had to rewind the DVD to confirm what I'd seen because it is blink and you miss it. First off she acttually says she isn't a girl, but then later he peers in through the door while she's changing ad you see her groin, there's basically a large vertical scar where a penis and testicles would have been. Yes he wants them to be goind steady, but his view of this is very naive and innocent, and seems to involve more of an emotional relationship than a physical one. From her perspective she doesn't want a lover, she wants a new protector to replace the older guy she came into town with (who was probably once where Oskar is now)

Yes, I've heard that in the novel that the film was based on it is explicitly stated that

Spoiler: Let the Right One In

she is actually a castrated boy.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah there were going to be flashbacks in the film burt they cut them, quite glad as I think it would have detracted somewhat.

 

[Kegg]

There was a relationship there, but it was quite innocent in many ways, and its worth noting that

Spoiler: spoiler for let the right one in

she isn't actually a girl, I had to rewind the DVD to confirm what I'd seen because it is blink and you miss it.

Hmph. Well, that's what I get for seeing the movie in theatres, and being an idiot.

 

[Starkers]

I didn't mean to imply that. To be honest the glimpse we see is so brief that unless you're concentrating, or you cheat like I did and watch the DVD its veruy easy to miss, and even her line could be interpreted otherwise. I'm not a girl because I'm actually a very old woman or I'm not a girl because I'm a monster.

I think it is a love story in part, but a very sexless one. According to the director its mainly about the anger Oskar feels at being bullied/ostracised at school and at his parents breakup.