Let the Right One In and Lollipops.
This whole blogging thing isn’t working out very well. Truth be told I really can’t think of anything to write right now either. Went and saw the blues win last night in overtime.
I’ve been so extremely busy working on PDF that I haven’t had time for much else. I’m keeping up with House and the Office and but that’s about it as far as TV goes. Lots of interesting new bands though. The couple that stick out at the moment are LaSalle and A Great Big Pile of Leaves. Mostly AGBPoL though.
Tonight I will be taking in an early screening of The Brothers Bloom which I am incredibly excited about since the script was such a nice read. Then we will be jetted cross town to the casino to watch Patton Oswalt do some stand-up. It will be my second time seeing him so hopefully he stays true to colors and is totally intoxicated by the time the show starts.
Last week we took in a screening of “Let the Right One In”. A Swedish vampire flick that pretty much owns on all levels. I wrote a little blurb about in another site so I’ll just copy it here for you. I don’t think the St. Louis International Film Festival has ever offered movies that I actually wanted to see until this year and it turns out it’s not really bad. I always imagined it to be some mess where retards with huge egos and silly pretentious college kids would hang out and make fun of your style and pretend to know everything about cinema. Turns out there was just one fat guy in the back row that was doing this. He didn’t like Let the Right One In so he can fuck off and eat another hamburger and go absolutely nowhere in his meaningless life.
I wasn’t planning on ever writing any reviews for a movie on here since I have done more movie reviews over the last year than I think I could ever manage. But this is probably the only movie I have seen since then that I can’t get out of my head after watching. The film is in Swedish and you might or not have seen the trailer for it. I would recommend you watch the trailer at least before reading this review.http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/lettherightonein/
If just from watching the trailer you aren’t thinking that movie visually looks amazing then I hate you. It’s the main reason I wanted to see this film. I don’t know why but everything in this film just looks perfect. There a ton of longshots and the director frames everyone of them nicely. It shows how effective using a surrounding environment can really add to a films tone.
The plot: Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is a 12-year-old outcast who is frequently picked on by his classmates. He dreams of getting his revenge, but he never stands up to the boys. With the arrival of his new next-door neighbor, 12-year-old Eli (Lina Leandersson), Oskar may finally have found a friend, ally, and first love. But Eli is no ordinary girl: she must keep her pale skin out of the sunlight, she can perform inhuman physical feats, and she has thirst for blood. The bodies begin to pile up, but Oskar can’t stay away from the girl who has finally given him courage.
This film is so much more than a vampire movie. When I think of it, I don’t even think about the fact that Eli is a vampire. I just think of their relationship and how well it works itself out. There is a pool scene that is unforgettable at the end and the director shows a close-up of Oskar as he is seeing Eli and then cuts to Eli’s eyes and you can just see the happiness in her eyes and it really puts the entire movie and their relationship into the forefront and makes you forget about her being a vampire.
I wouldn’t consider this a horror film either, I don’t remember jumping at at all and more often than not I wasn’t expected to be scared. It’s one of those things where I don’t even want to write about it because if I say one thing it will turn one person off from seeing and I think this film deserves to be seen by everyone.
I was incredibly excited to see this film and then when you look at where it’s playing, it’s only at about ten theatres so Friday I learned that it was playing a couple hours away for the St. Louis film festival and I dropped everything to go check it out and I’m happy to say that it delivered in every aspect. Usually when I get my hopes up for something it falls short but this did not disappoint. It’s a shame that an american is going to remake it and fudge it all up though.