The movie is just so subtle. It just doesn’t try to do anything too hard to make it scary and in your face. The setting is horribly fitting for such a story. It all takes place in a cold snowy Swedish town, where the pale and the cold blooded would not look out of place…and the colours and the lighting just makes everything all the more eerie. And the story…its just soo good. Boy meets girl and girl is a vampire…simple as that. Girl needs to do things to survive…and it just comes down to that…the basic need to survive…its not glossified and glorified and even gory-fied either. The boy is lonely and in her finds an unlikely friend. So is the girl too, being what she is, lonely. So despite him being her natural prey, she befriends him. Its been said that even if this was not a vampire themed movie…it would still make a compelling coming of age tale of two individuals who feel thoroughly out of place in their world. But as it is…the supernatural aspect of it and the danger make it all the more gripping. One of the best of its genre. And I’m really looking forward to the American version of the same story, Let Me In coming out soon.
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