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Let the Right One In
10:15 Mar 22 2023
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The american film "Let me in" is based in a previous swedish one that I really love: "let the right one in". If you think you has seen all about vampire films you must watch this european film... Vampire children, bullying, friendship, love....Wow!

A victim of bullies makes friends with a vampire:

Set in 1983, Let Me In is the horrific tale of Oskar and Eli. It begins with the grizzly discovery of the body of a teenage boy, emptied of blood. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last - revenge for all the bad things the bullies at school do to him, day after day.

It's a friendship story, though. Our other protagonist is Oskar, a fat little nerd and child of a single mother who is the natural target of the bullies in his school. When he makes friends with the strange girl who just moved in next door, he's initially fascinated by the fact that she walks around barefoot in the snow, smells like decay, and has never seen a Rubik's Cube before. She tells him immediately that they can't be friends — and yet, a friendship does form, initially over that Rubik's Cube. One of the humanizing elements of poor Eli, the vampire child who's never had a life, is that she likes puzzles (no doubt not having much else to do with all the time she has to spend hiding in the dark).

So, let me in... and enjoy!