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In Reply to: RE: "Let the Right One In!:" this year's, "Pan's Labyrinth," though posted by tinear on February 14, 2009 at 08:12:44
But my take on it is quite different than yours. I didn't see anything romantic about it at all.
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realize the central story was the love between the boy and the girl???????
That WAS the film.
I don't believe it is a love story. I believe it is an imagining of the pathology of a vampire if they were real and among us. I have no doubt that the boy fell in love. I believe what we saw was the end and begining of a cycle of vampire/human co-depenedence that any vampire but particularly one in the form of a child would need to survive in this world. while i do think there may be some genuine affection just as a blind person feels love for their seeing eye dog, it's first and formost about utility. ultimately what I think we see is the end of the cycle of one human servant who has out lived his utility and the courting of his replacement. I found it very very creepy actually.
Tin,
I agree the friendship between Eli and Oskar is the core of the movie.
Story of two friends who love each other, sure - two haunted children, one trapped forever in adolesence but no longer young, the other struggling with loneliness, anger and all the supressed resentment, bewilderment and anger that encompasses.
But - ELI IS NOT A GIRL, nor ever was. That doesn't skew the dynamic, but it does shade the story in interesting ways, becasue although "she" passes for human, and passes for a girl, Eli was born a boy.
It's still one of the best stories about childhood I've ever seen.
But HE thought "she" was! And she--- recall the scene where she snuggled in bed next to him and others wherein she showed strong emotions (hugs, etc.)--- was shown as a young girl throughout the film, wasn't she? And he pledged his sincerity by that blood ritual? And she saved him and didn't convert him, out of LOVE.
Anyhow, that's my take. A very, very cool love story--- whatever SHE was.
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