| Re: Enjoying movies that most people don't [message #90084 is a reply to message #90082] |
Wed, 10 April 2019 14:14   |
Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri
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I watched a movie recently that I'd never heard of my sister told me about. Called, Let The Right One In. Maybe because it's a Swedish movie, I'd never heard of it. But, apparently it got good reviews here and abroad from it's release in 2008. Regardless the reviews, the story seemed compelling to me, so with subtitles I watched. And I thought it was excellent. Based on a novel are two lonely Swedish kids, a boy tormented by bullies and parents divorced, and a strange little girl, (seemingly) who seems unperturbed being outside in freezing cold with no coat. They become friends gradually, meeting at the play gym outside their apartment in the dark. In time the boy finds out this girl is a vampire. As she says, she's been 12 for a long, long time. There is alternating grizzly realism, her dispatching victim's to get her nourishment and she and the boy's strange friendship. He's unfazed with the knowledge of her status in life. In the end the girl makes sure her friends tormentors are taken care of. It's nice to get a different perspective in movies of other countries and cultures without the Hollywood treatment. I'd recommend it highly, but it may not be others cup o tea. And that's alright with me. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/
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