at what point did u love the movie

[armyofdorkness]

It ended up being a lot like viral infection for me. Honestly, the first time I watched this movie I was disappointed. I was really let down, in fact. It looked like it could have been SO awesome, I thought.

As it turns out I had ingested a virus that only needed time to gradually replicate and take me over. Now the old me is dead, but I don't miss him. I'm happy in the beautiful darkness this movie has provided. Am I being melodramatic? Maybe.

It feels like "my" kind of movie finally got its masterpiece. It explored many things personal to me, and also showed me some new ideas and feelings. These feelings were always there, of course, but great movies have ways of making you discover and define them.

The best part is knowing that there are others with these feelings and I'm not a freak. Well, maybe I am, but maybe that's okay!

[pristidae]

It explored many things personal to me, and also showed me some new ideas and feelings. These feelings were always there, of course, but great movies have ways of making you discover and define them.

I totally agree -- maybe its a "man" thing, but I find that certain songs and movies act like a catalyst, developing feelings that remained partially dormant in me, allowing me to experience them more intensely and understand their significance better.

LTROI, of course, did this for me.

[Ninpo]

My oldest brother first recommended me this movie before this summer. I read the sypnosis on wikipedia and it didn't sound very cool at the time. For some odd reason it never got to me to watch it. So as time progressed I soon to forget. It was only until recently for some reason my younger brother decided to watch it. He told me he watched it 3 times, and I asked him "why?" It supposedly was a really good film.

When I first watched this I wasn't interested at all. I watched it with my younger brother who recommended it to me. I was never big on vampire flicks because I hate seeing blood, felt a little uneasy seeing Hakan drain that guy's blood in the beginning. Watched it further, nothing much struck to me. About 30 minutes into the film I went out of the room and went downstairs to browse on the computer for about 30 minutes (its what I do when I''m bored). I came back and found that the movie was still going. It was the scene that Oskar lets Eli into his house without properly inviting her. I was quick to judge how dumb this looks, but when the queued the music it all just struck me. This was amazing. I believed that it was a dumb kid vampire film before, but after seeing that scene there was a lot of emotion and drama that I didn't expect any kid to portray so well. I watched Twilight a couple of months before, and found that it was corny. But I was wrong about Let the Right One In, it was much more than I expected. So I kept on watching til the end and when I slept I dreamt of it in my mind. The next day I worked 12-10pm and for that whole day I couldn't keep focus. For once, a movie really got to me. I kept thinking F***, that movie was awesome. I watched it again after work, everything about that film was great and it drew you in. The setting, the time,the snow, Hakan, the bullies, Oskar and especially Eli made every part enjoyable. Its like the Joker in the Dark Knight. What I like about it is that it shows vampires are not having fun being who they are.

Excuse any improper english, I had let it all out.

[moonvibe34]

i have always been a fan of the vampire and the mythology concerning vampires. in my opinion vampire fiction has not been taken very seriously in recent years so i have been reluctant to veiw vampire related films. all too often vampire films have been pointless gore fests with little to no story or fang filled orgies with little to no story. everything else has been teenage related and i have a difficult time watching anything targeted at a teenage demographic.
all that being said i took a chance on LTROI simply because i was in the mood for something that i knew nothing about. i had read that it was a Swedish vampire movie and that's all i knew. when Oskar and Eli had their first encounter i knew from their exchange that i was in for something different. i knew that i was in for something psychological and emotional which greatly intrigued me so i began to watch the film very intently. when Oskar hitchhiked back home to confront Eli i was hooked and my heart yearned for their love to prevail.
once the credits rolled i was overwhelmed with thoughts and emotions as the story had connected with me on many levels. never has a movie caused such a range of emotions within me while at the same time leaving me completely satisfied with a wonderful story. any moment or thought that i spend on LTROI will never be regretted.

[gattoparde59]

I saw this thread bumped up again, and I started reading my way backwards and I came to Pristidae and they way he saw this film.

Pristidae, as Hank Williams used to say, I hope you and your wife continue to find health and happiness together.

[BadWolf]

The moment the credits rolled I knew I had just witnessed something special and very rare.

[Wolfchild]

Actually, I knew I was going to like the directing when I saw how the shot of Håkan's attack on the path in the forest was framed. You see the path through some trees in the foreground, and the actual attack takes place directly behind one of them. I immediately thought that was a cool way to both distance the viewer from the violence, but at the same time bringing it close to the viewer by forcing the viewer to imagine it.

Then by the time of the scene at the glass door it was all over for me - although I hadn't realized yet exactly how over it was.

[pristidae]

I saw this thread bumped up again, and I started reading my way backwards and I came to Pristidae and they way he saw this film.

Pristidae, as Hank Williams used to say, I hope you and your wife continue to find health and happiness together.

Thanks gattoparde59-- I've always been partial to Italian servals.

[TheVoxHumanus]

Actually, I knew I was going to like the directing when I saw how the shot of Håkan's attack on the path in the forest was framed. You see the path through some trees in the foreground, and the actual attack takes place directly behind one of them. I immediately thought that was a cool way to both distance the viewer from the violence, but at the same time bringing it close to the viewer by forcing the viewer to imagine it.

Then by the time of the scene at the glass door it was all over for me - although I hadn't realized yet exactly how over it was.

That was right around the time I realized I was watching a movie directed by a competent director...I remember thinking "ha, that's clever!" when I first saw it.

Actually, thinking about it now, I remember the specific shot that made me pay closer attention to the movie. It was after Hakan had slit the boy's throat and we get the extreme close-up of the jug filling with blood and the hollow, sick sound it makes.

[sauvin]

I honestly can't remember what made me pay attention to the movie. I'm a great one for cramming a DVD into the laptop's drive and launching it just to have some noise while I'm lost working in another window. Maybe it was the music? Anyway, first time I saw the movie (hold your flames, please) I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen.

Watching it again, maybe I was touched by how Oskar offered his Rubik's cube to her, and maybe again by the scene I didn't understand (and very clearly understood that there was something to understand) when Oskar and Eli do their little hand dance on the window of the door that separates the inner hallway from Eli's apartment's living room.


It's been a couple of months since I've put the DVD into the drive, I guess. The only reason I removed it was because I'd found another DVD with the theatrical subtitles. Two months, averaging one viewing per day. Yea, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen, uh huh, so why can I not stop watching it?