Last night I went to see Let the Right One In. It's a skillfully crafted movie about a twelve year old boy who inadvertently falls in love with a vampire has been at that same age... for a while. The film is horrifyingly gruesome but incredibly heartwarming... complete with necks being snapped, limbs being torn and thrown, a little girl gushing blood from all facial extremities... but also a prepubescent boy and girl begin to "go steady," share in their first (bloody) first kiss, and teach each other how to get along in a world so hard to understand.
"The Right One" is a Swedish film. I always wonder after seeing movies with subtitles how much more I would have enjoyed it if I were able to watch and understand it in its original tongue. I mean, even my favorite American movies just would not be the same without being able to understand tones of voice and different inflections... for me, those things are very often what make or break a movie. So it's always fascinating when I thoroughly enjoy a movie even when all I can do is read the dialogue silently.
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