A vicious cycle.

[cherished memories]

Okay so after watching LTROI and a couple of LTROI related dreams i fell into a week of depression. (sounds horribly stupid i know) But yes my parents asked what was wrong and i really didn't want to tell them what i thought was the problem. after the week i decided to start reading the fan fictions on this site and others, it subdued the feeling and felt much better when i was reading them but when i hit the end of the stories, i fell back into the depression! starting to worry about when i bleed the internet dry of LTROI FFs! curious as to if ANY of yous on here have went through the same or similar experiences???

[PeteMork]

Okay so after watching LTROI and a couple of LTROI related dreams i fell into a week of depression. (sounds horribly stupid i know) But yes my parents asked what was wrong and i really didn't want to tell them what i thought was the problem. after the week i decided to start reading the fan fictions on this site and others, it subdued the feeling and felt much better when i was reading them but when i hit the end of the stories, i fell back into the depression! starting to worry about when i bleed the internet dry of LTROI FFs! curious as to if ANY of yous on here have went through the same or similar experiences???

Why do you think most of us FF and FA contributors, contribute in the first place? It's by far the best way to "stay in the moment" and make Eli and Oskar our own.

You should try it yourself.

[Cuchullain]

Okay so after watching LTROI and a couple of LTROI related dreams i fell into a week of depression. (sounds horribly stupid i know) But yes my parents asked what was wrong and i really didn't want to tell them what i thought was the problem. after the week i decided to start reading the fan fictions on this site and others, it subdued the feeling and felt much better when i was reading them but when i hit the end of the stories, i fell back into the depression! starting to worry about when i bleed the internet dry of LTROI FFs! curious as to if ANY of yous on here have went through the same or similar experiences???

Yes I am suffering from the same symptoms as I type.

It is all part of the infection and you will find that everyone is here for the same reasons. I am still trying to work out why LTROI has had this effect on me. I am putting it down to the fact that there are many parallels between my childhood and that of Oskars. I'd have given anything to have Eli as a friend when I was 12. I'm not sure if she could have gotten through my long list of tormentors at the time though. It would have been a long term project.

Have you got through all of the FF? I have a few pages of them to get through yet.

Another couple of suggestions for you. I watched the film as an English speaker and found the Swedish language to be quite hard to decipher so I watched it a few times with Swedish subtitles so I could see how the words were written. That kept me busy for a while. You can also read Wolfchild's 'A Tale Told by Hands' and that put another spin on the film for me. Link to this is below

http://let-the-right-one-in.com/woofy/4 ... -by-hands/

Another thing that you do is watch the film through VLC player and add the director's commentary in English for extra information from TA and JAL. You can get the srt file in the 'UK Director's Commentary' section on Wolfchild's page.

http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/woofy/

I hope this helps.

[cherished memories]

Why do you think most of us FF and FA contributors, contribute in the first place? It's by far the best way to "stay in the moment" and make Eli and Oskar our own.

You should try it yourself.

I've been thinking about it! but the high quality FF on here intimidates me somewhat

I think i might give it a shot sooner or later but im fine reading until then

[cherished memories]

Yes I am suffering from the same symptoms as I type.

It is all part of the infection and you will find that everyone is here for the same reasons. I am still trying to work out why LTROI has had this effect on me. I am putting it down to the fact that there are many parallels between my childhood and that of Oskars. I'd have given anything to have Eli as a friend when I was 12. I'm not sure if she could have gotten through my long list of tormentors at the time though. It would have been a long term project.

Have you got through all of the FF? I have a few pages of them to get through yet.

Another couple of suggestions for you. I watched the film as an English speaker and found the Swedish language to be quite hard to decipher so I watched it a few times with Swedish subtitles so I could see how the words were written. That kept me busy for a while. You can also read Wolfchild's 'A Tale Told by Hands' and that put another spin on the film for me. Link to this is below

http://let-the-right-one-in.com/woofy/4 ... -by-hands/

Another thing that you do is watch the film through VLC player and add the director's commentary in English for extra information from TA and JAL. You can get the srt file in the 'UK Director's Commentary' section on Wolfchild's page.

http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/woofy/

I hope this helps.

Hey Cuchullian, It's got me baffled aswell! I'm a big film fan, but NON of them have had such an effect! i honestly don't understand it
Past experiences and relating to Oskar may have attributed to my love of the film, but ive seen other films where bullying is involved and not toke notice! after watching it i felt very lonely, its almost as if the film reminds me how I'm single but i can subdue the feeling by almost feeding on the love of Eli and Oskar

I still have a lot of FF to get through so the time isn't a worry its just when i reach the end and there truely is NOTHING else to read! D= but like PeteMork said i can always have a shot at writing my own got a few ideas.

Thanks for the help

[Ash]

....curious as to if ANY of yous on here have went through the same or similar experiences???

I feel quite the opposite each time I watch the film. It's uplifting for me, probably due to the ending.
If Eli had left without Oskar, that would be depressing, but them leaving together was a triumph of the human spirit, love against all the odds etc etc.
E&O were the winners, and those they left behind in Blackeberg the losers. And although their future together could be a bleak one, sometimes choosing the road less traveled is the best option.

[DarkGuyver]

I feel quite the opposite each time I watch the film. It's uplifting for me, probably due to the ending.
If Eli had left without Oskar, that would be depressing, but them leaving together was a triumph of the human spirit, love against all the odds etc etc.
E&O were the winners, and those they left behind in Blackeberg the losers. And although their future together could be a bleak one, sometimes choosing the road less traveled is the best option.

Yeah, I felt the same way. I started to feel really sad after I saw Eli getting into the cab and ride off into the night alone. But I felt really happy when I saw that s/he returned in the end to save Oskar, and leave together in the train.

[Ash]

I started to feel really sad after I saw Eli getting into the cab and ride off into the night alone.

That would have been the sadomasochistic director's film ending, the Ingmar Bergman film.
"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful," Bergman.
LTROI is quite the opposite. It ends with love, rebirth and the realisation that we are all free to change and make our own choices in life.
And that's not depressing.

[Cuchullain]

I started to feel really sad after I saw Eli getting into the cab and ride off into the night alone.

That would have been the sadomasochistic director's film ending, the Ingmar Bergman film.
"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful," Bergman.
LTROI is quite the opposite. It ends with love, rebirth and the realisation that we are all free to change and make our own choices in life.
And that's not depressing.

Sure I understand that while LTROI does have a happy ending full of possibilities the entire story does have some kind of melancholy about it. I think that that is why this forum exists and why we are all here. I do agree that perhaps the sadness lifts after a while and you can then begin to see the story in a new light but after my first viewing the melancholy was intense. 3/4 weeks later I have come to terms with it and it doesn't bother me now in the same way but it has left a mark on me that will never be erased.

I can not speak for cherished memories but as far as I know he/she(apologies as I have no idea of gender in this case) is new to LTROI and so is probably feeling this melancholy/depression rather intensely at the moment. I think this is just the first phase of infection that the infected just have to get through.

[DMt.]

"...That you will never know the love they share, that you will grow old and die alone"...?