Spreading the Infection

[drakkar]

She have told me after 3 viewings of LTROI that it's that kind of movie that is funny to watch many times.

That is interesting. Coming from a so young kid watching a film on this level that is quite something.

[PeteMork]

Hmm! Perhaps what she really loves, is you.

[Ash]

She also laughed and said when Oskar was on the bus to his fater. While playing with that red small figure that it was the lamest toy ever. It didn't do anything. xD

Toys have certainly changed over the past few decades. Kids now expect toys to do something rather than using their imagination.
I guess I did too. In the 70's I had a Sonic Blaster, the 'boom' measured 157 db at the end of the barrel. They were quickly taken off the market.

[God of Vampires]

She have told me after 3 viewings of LTROI that it's that kind of movie that is funny to watch many times. But listen to this, not only does she want to learn morse-code. But she wants me and her to do a bloodpact FOR REAL!! I can't belive I've infected my very own niece. I promise you guys, with her and MicaMe, this is all a coinsidence. I have no restepy!

- She's too young for the book...

I should actually still rest my arms, but I have to say that your niece seem more infected then I am .

Hmm! Perhaps what she really loves, is you.

Quite possible, she is not the only one, I already like you despite not having met you Intrige. I would think the same applies for most people here . But your niece also seem genuinly infected.

[intrige]

Thank you soo much (((hugs))) She got her friend to watch it today. She was much more wimpy XD But that's okay.. I'll get back to all of this later

[gkmoberg1]

I think some of the most interesting questions in this strange endeavor to spread the infection are:
(please do not take offense, I'm simply bringing up what I would call discussion points.)

1. Why is it so important to us, personally, that other people get infected?
2. How far from the line is this from pushing any other viewpoint on people around us? (ie: political or religious ideas.)
3. Suppose a person dislikes the book/film, and cannot see why you like the book/film so much. Do you feel they have failed, to some extent, to understand a part of who you are as well?

I had hoped that some in my family, some of my friends and perhaps some of my colleagues might take to LTROI as I had. Just look at all we discuss here about the film and the novel, across these forums and even the FA/FF sections... I had hoped that some of these people might like to join in on this as well. There is so much that is shared here, and so much that continues to be shared here in this collective discussion. I can see how they too could add to it all. So that is has been my drive to get others to see the film or perhaps read the novel. That none of them have, save two or three, has been a little dissapointing, but I have had to just let it go at that. I do not regard any of them differently. Nor do I judge myself differently. It has been an offer - by me to them - to share an experience and be part of exploring it further, here. I am not the type to ever push anything on anyone, so it passes. Yet I hope that yet they might take me up on it and give it a try.

[lombano]

She also laughed and said when Oskar was on the bus to his fater. While playing with that red small figure that it was the lamest toy ever. It didn't do anything. xD

Toys have certainly changed over the past few decades. Kids now expect toys to do something rather than using their imagination.

Well, only if it's supposed to be a toy, rather than something that gets used as a toy. The other day I was playing with some kids, we played at war, which consisted of constantly 'shooting' at one another using sticks as pretend rifles, and at one point some bushes as cannons.

[drakkar]

1. Why is it so important to us, personally, that other people get infected?

Because we regard it as a gift worth sharing with others?
Because it is so important to us emotionally that we get this urge to spread the word - part of our "religion genes"?

[drakkar]

Just watched the film together with a childhood friend and his wife which are paying us a visit during their vacation. My friend noticed it (them) in the shelf and asked to see it - he had thought about that for a long time.
Same thing happened as I've noticed before; He loved LTROI, but his wife found the story absurd as soon as the story started to pick up (Virginia wakes up after the attack). The mix between social realism and meeting "the other" didn't work for her at all. Either it is a fairytale or it is not. Anyway she bought Harbour and decided to give it a chance.

[now142]

Well I at last got to trying to spread the infection. Last night I showed the film on the big screen in our house. .the people attending were a friend named . C and a girl named A . The boy C was intereseted in the vewry first when Eli meets Oskar and kept repeading the knife in the tree lines ' Suqeel like a Pig '. He thought Oskar was a girl with the blond hair. The girl A who managed to a lot of texting in the film had more to say. She knew more about Vampires comming from Romania, She said that there are vampires about today excect they dont take your actual blood just your emotional energy. She said in the Bed scene what Eli was doing to Oskar with her hand tracing on his arm exactly what her boyfriend was doing to her the night before. She felt that that scene was too grown up for such little children (you can get the camera to lie very easily). When Eli Kissed Oskar with the blood on her mouth she put her hand over mouth in a terrific out burst of discust How could she do that she said. She said Eli looks young but she must be a few hundred years old they usualy are. She said it was no use Oskar liking eli now in a few years when he grew up a little he would loose interest in her and only if she turned him would any thing be more permenent.After the movie every thing was normal or so we thought, When A was out in the conservitory putting out her laundry (it was night time) she looked out the window but an other friend was looking in smoking a cigarett and she gave out an almighty screem I thought she han seen a rat or some thing monstrus out in the garden, And she hept screaming at the top of her voice as she ran back into the house. After a few moments she explained she thought she saw Eli looking in throught the window. Because she had sceen her looking through windows in the film. Once in side she went into the conservitory again and a few moments later another almighty screem again. this time my reflection in the glass she thought Eli was there. I laughted and every one was in fits of laughter. Then she explained she never watches horror movies a night. But I said that Eli is beautiful, and she said ' look an all the people she killed '. she can kill you. So I got google on the computer and showed her Lina as she looks now to quiten her. Then she said she will never go to sleep because Eli might knock on her window and how easy it was she only have to climb on top of the conservative. Or if the toilet window was open she couldent go in there. But it was a good thing the bed in her room had drawers under it because if it hadent she would nver sleep because Eli would be under there. Well we were all laughting then.

Also when she realised Eli was a boy origionaly she became very interested and said she was very interested in seeing the book. But I'm afraid to give her the book as she be screeming all night about things in her room ect. The end result nobody was infected.