The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

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The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by intrige » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:47 pm

Now think about it. The minute you google LTROI fan art, or just information something from this page showes up. It's realy easy to find this site, and not even all of it's members are very active. We are from all over the world, and how many menbers are there? And how meny of us are REALY infected? If we compare that with the number of humans that can see the movie. And can read the book, there is not many of us.

And by that I don't mean that we make someone hooked about LTROI, for, what a month. For me it's been a half year, and I am just as hooked as the day I first saw the movie. Realy, that is not very normal for me. (As far as how well I know my self O.o) If YOU are lucky enough to have a real infected by your side. Then it's like one in a million.
Some guy I know, moved from Norway, to Luleå! Can you belive it! Where they are going to show that LTROI play. And I asked him if he would be going. And mabye bring a videocamera! :D He said that he didn't liked it "all" as much as I do. And that he didn't want to go. Even though he loves the movie. He's soo lucky! And doesn't even use that luck!

When I realy think about how big this site, the movie and the book is. I realy came to thought of it when I was going to write a post on my blog. (Everything about LTROI) Gosh, I tryed my hardest to not make thay post realy long. Cause teenagers are too lazy to read that much. But the point is, LTROI is so much. Over seas. It's a story beond what I could belive, if it wasn't inside my head 24/7. If someone loved a movie or a book this much, I would think they were crazy. There is a girl in my pararell class, have read all the twilight books 3 times or something. Just by that, I would think she was twisted. For reading so much, and being soo hooked. But what am I then? I have read LTROI just as many times, and seen the movie, I don't know. I don't bother to count. One day it'l be to much.^ ^ And if someone ask me something about it, I would most likely know. Just as that girl would know about Twilight. (Please forgive me for bringing Twilight up.)

Many people don't get this infection. Most of them takes a look at the movie. Many of them loves it, or just likes it. Some of them hate it, they go home. Falls to sleap and forgets about it, mabye. When I saw Wall-E, it was stuck in my head for a week, but that was it. LTROI is not the same thing. Not at all.

As I have said in a post before. I think that: If 10 people saw LTROI, only 1 would get infected. And you, and I are one of them. One of those 10. I find my self kind of lucky, for loving this movie so much, and the book. But I can't help to think of all those, who just pass by it. Watch it, and just continue walking. Or those who don't give the movie a chanse cause of the languige. They realy don't know what they are missing!
If someone asked me about why I loved this movie so much, I realy wouldn't know what to say. It's like saying "I love you" to someone for the first time and realy mean it. I have never said that to anyone, realy. Strong words are one of my soft spots. Love , hate, death and what more? But, I could imagine how hard it must be to tell that person what you realy feel, for the first time. That is somehow how I feel if someone asked me why I love LTROI so much. It's to much to say, it's hard to aksplaine. You can't realy make someone understand, they have to understand it before you tell them why. Cause when you don't have the words, and tells them in the simplest way possible. They'l understand. Cause they know the feeling.
The Let the right one in feeling!

Now I wonder.
- Have you a infected close by?
- What would you answer of somone asked you why you loves LTROI so much?

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Re: The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by God of Vampires » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:37 pm

intrige wrote:Now I wonder.
- Have you a infected close by?
Both yes and no. My mother really likes this story, at least to the point she read my fan fiction. She did grow up in Blackeberg, before JAL's time as she is slightly older. Thou she is not even close to as devoted as I am and I have not maneged to get her to join the site yet.

My sister though is not a fan of the book and ironicly refuses to see the movie as it is in swedish. This is a major difference in the preferance of american movie audiences and swedish ones. While americans often tend to be too lazy to watch a movie with subtitles, swedes prefere english before their own language :lol: .

My father has also seen the movie as well as read the book, I haven't heard anything bad from him. though he does not consider it anything special.
intrige wrote: - What would you answer of somone asked you why you loves LTROI so much?
This is not a easy question, but I guess that my affection for this story can in most simplicity be summed up in three letters; Eli ;) .
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Re: The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by intrige » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:57 pm

God of Vampires wrote: This is a major difference in the preferance of american movie audiences and swedish ones. While americans often tend to be too lazy to watch a movie with subtitles, swedes prefere english before their own language :lol: .
It's the same with Norwegians! Mostly because Norwegian movies normaly isn't as well made compared to hollywood movies. But, we read subtitles every day on TV. And no one minds. Ok, so we learn English at school. But if I se a French movie, I don't complain about the sub. I am just glad there is one so I can understand the plot better! :D
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Re: The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by bore » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:03 pm

God of Vampires wrote:My sister though is not a fan of the book and ironicly refuses to see the movie as it is in swedish. This is a major difference in the preferance of american movie audiences and swedish ones. While americans often tend to be too lazy to watch a movie with subtitles, swedes prefere english before their own language :lol: .
This is pretty much true for me too. The movie completely passed under my radar since I pay no attention to Swedish movies whatsoever. (I first heard about Noomi Rapace when looking at imdb for the alien prequel.)
When I heard about LMI and that it was a remake of a Swedish vampire-movie that people around the world for some odd reason liked I decided that I would give LtROI a try. (Since I hate remakes even more than I hate Swedish movies.) If I had been told that it was a romantic drama with a focus on child actors I probably would have let it go and never even looked at it.

And now for the questions;

- Have you a infected close by?
Not really sure about that. I told my boss to watch the movie, and he did say that he read up a bit on it after seeing it and he started to talk about JAL on nyhetsmorgon 23/01/2011 during lunch yesterday (I responded that I had seen it, I didn't say how many times.) but I don't really think he is infected.

- What would you answer of somone asked you why you loves LTROI so much?
Initially I would respond with a lame joke, but that is just how I am.
But honestly, when I recommend the movie to someone I say that there are some books that I really love and those books does not really have to be about anything special, have a coherrent story or even of a specific genre. There are stories that are just so well told that I enjoy them only because of that.
LtROI (The movie) is like that; a hand is lifted slowly and put on a window, a small act, even boring, but the way it is depicted is good enough to be completely mesmerizing.

Edit: Another reason to why I try to say that it is worth to see the movie just becasue how well the story is told is because I think it is easier to love it if you don't know anything about it beforehand. After all; that is how I experienced it.
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Re: The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by moonvibe34 » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:36 pm

Sometimes it is a tad depressing to realize that, after you've convinced everyone you know to watch the movie and/or read the book, no one in your circle of family and friends feels the same way about LTROI as you do, not even close. Heck, I haven't even met another soul anywhere who has even heard of LTROI. Thank heavens for this forum where the Infected can commune and gush about Oskar, Eli and all things LTROI.

I too am just as "infected" now as I was when the story took hold of me more than a year ago. Perhaps even more so. Since I still carry around the awe and wonder from the stories that affected me so strongly during my childhood I don't see my infection fading anytime soon. True love never fades.

As to what I might answer someone who asks why I love LTROI so much...The answer is in the question, it's a four letter word. ;)
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Post by intrige » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:45 pm

Love? :D Ah, I feel the same way ahout this forum :) I think my head would have exploted if Wolfchild just didn't care! O.o
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Post by DMt. » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:28 pm

I was happy to get here too.

No Infected near me; one friend liked it a lot, and has just checked out LMI [she says it *is* a love story] but isn't nearly as obsessive about it as, say, yours truly.

Why do I love LTROI so much? Because of its refreshing take on the age-old Problem of Evil, perhaps? That even as dark a creature as a vampire can reach for love and goodness? No, it must be because of the sheer angelic beauty of osKare and eLina in the film...or perhaps it was that, after all, the whole thing was conceived and executed in love, and everyone who Gets It seems to give it the best they have.
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Post by intrige » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:01 am

Well said :D And thank you :)
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Post by God of Vampires » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:24 am

DMt. wrote: Why do I love LTROI so much? Because of its refreshing take on the age-old Problem of Evil, perhaps? That even as dark a creature as a vampire can reach for love and goodness? No, it must be because of the sheer angelic beauty of osKare and eLina in the film...or perhaps it was that, after all, the whole thing was conceived and executed in love, and everyone who Gets It seems to give it the best they have.
As for the problem of evil, LTROI does indeed have a intresting take on it, hinting that the perception of good or evil aren't as clear as they first might seem. a quote by the greek philosoph Socrates springs to mind.

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

Think about this for a second, isn't this what LTROI is really about? Eli might be seen as evil by those who are ignorant of the truth, that she is just a lonely soul seeking comfort. The value of a person should not be judged by actions, but by intentions and the quality of the soul. Never judge a person by your first impression, I think Eli is a good example of this. Lacke's first impression of Eli was as a bloodthirsty monster while Oskar's first impression of her was as a little girl. As Oskar grew closer to Eli he discovered that Eli was much more than this, including the less flattering aspects that Lacke saw. He even discovered that his assumption of Eli being a girl was wrong.. With time, Oskar learn to see Eli as she really is, her flaws and her strengths, he learns to love her for what she is, he do not love her for what he wish she would be, nor do he hate her for what she does, because he understands why. This unlike Håkan who only see his own ideals of her and shows no regard in Eli's well being in pursuit of his urges. Or Lacke who see Eli only as the monster who killed two of his friends. Oskar is the only one in the story who truly know what Eli is, the same can be said about Eli, only Eli completely understands Oskar.

LTROI have shown my much when it comes to the nature of evil. As Socrates has his version of solution to the problem of evil, I have my own. Nothing has I ever been more sure of than this. I do not think we can potentialy come closer to the truth.

"There is only one good, love, and one evil, hate."

I am proud to be an infected. I have met a couple of you in person, and I have to say that these people are some of the best people I have ever met :D .
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Re: The LTROI feeling, and thoughts about the infection

Post by jonjon_z » Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:54 am

I have to admit there are times I can't stop thinking about Oskar & Eli but I don't think this is a bad thing. It hasn't affected my work so far... lol. I still get teary eyed whenever I hear "Eli's Theme" which happens occasionally because the OST playlist has a permanent spot in my mp3 player. I swear no other movie has affected me in such a way. Not "Gone With The Wind" or "Titanic" because this is a movie I can relate to in many different ways. I don't consider myself a fanatic this is something else.

One of my best friends went to a cinema showing of LTROI. It was a late show. He met a girl there who made a comment about something and they ended up at a coffee shop where they spent the entire night just talking about the film. They are now engaged to be married and have asked me to be their best man in April. True Story.
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