Posted by Someone Else at 5:02pm Jun 28 '10Just watched this last night with my roommate...Swedish vampire movie. HOLY SHIT. So pretty. So strange. So beautiful.
Oskar is a friggin creepy little kid...definitely strikes me as the type to snap and go on a killing spree. It was an interesting element, to have the human be so dark...Eli was downright cheerful by comparison.
I think my favorite element was Eli's helper/guardian/whatever you wanna call him. I remember wondering fairly early on in the movie what his relationship to her was--he seemed to feel a sense of loyalty to her, and she seemed to be at least somewhat loyal to him as well. I was wondering if he was her father, or perhaps her brother, but that would make her a fairly young vampire, all things considered.
I friggin loved it when I figured out who he was (which clicked for me sometime around the hospital scene). Fucking fantastic element.
And oh my god. The ending. That was not what I was expecting to see (nevermind the fact that I can't quite figure out the physics of it...not the movie-physics, but the real physics, we had a leg that looked like it passed under the older brother's arm, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but anyway). It was really, really beautiful...though, I think the scene earlier, in the bathroom, was probably my favorite scene. I loved the way she went to him and hugged him at that point...that hug was when I fell in love with her.
But I hated the very very last scene. After the long quiet scene of snowfall, the final scene spelled too much out and felt entirely unnecessary (even though it did kind of let us know what happens to both Oskar and Eli, but I don't think it really mattered)...and I think they did it because they wanted to be clear about who the guardian guy was, because there still was some room for confusion (in fact, when that scene came on seems to be when it clicked for my roommate, he elbowed me and asked if I knew who the man was yet--I'd mused aloud about who is he early on in the movie).
Absolutely stunning movie...I donno that it's possible to recommend it highly enough.
Oskar is a friggin creepy little kid...definitely strikes me as the type to snap and go on a killing spree. It was an interesting element, to have the human be so dark...Eli was downright cheerful by comparison.
I think my favorite element was Eli's helper/guardian/whatever you wanna call him. I remember wondering fairly early on in the movie what his relationship to her was--he seemed to feel a sense of loyalty to her, and she seemed to be at least somewhat loyal to him as well. I was wondering if he was her father, or perhaps her brother, but that would make her a fairly young vampire, all things considered.
I friggin loved it when I figured out who he was (which clicked for me sometime around the hospital scene). Fucking fantastic element.
And oh my god. The ending. That was not what I was expecting to see (nevermind the fact that I can't quite figure out the physics of it...not the movie-physics, but the real physics, we had a leg that looked like it passed under the older brother's arm, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but anyway). It was really, really beautiful...though, I think the scene earlier, in the bathroom, was probably my favorite scene. I loved the way she went to him and hugged him at that point...that hug was when I fell in love with her.
But I hated the very very last scene. After the long quiet scene of snowfall, the final scene spelled too much out and felt entirely unnecessary (even though it did kind of let us know what happens to both Oskar and Eli, but I don't think it really mattered)...and I think they did it because they wanted to be clear about who the guardian guy was, because there still was some room for confusion (in fact, when that scene came on seems to be when it clicked for my roommate, he elbowed me and asked if I knew who the man was yet--I'd mused aloud about who is he early on in the movie).
Absolutely stunning movie...I donno that it's possible to recommend it highly enough.
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