directed by Matt Reeves
In reading the title you might be thinking... whats the point in reading the rest? and while I think that although in some respects it did feel like that exact mixture of movies left to its own devices... it had some orignal 'hauntedness' all of its own. The original Let The Right One In (2008) is deadly simular and probably a better movie for its originality alas the Swedish tounge is lost on me and is based on a novel of the same title.
I should point out that while watching it with my girl and good bro, they both were like 'wtf is this depressing sh$t' about 20 minutes in, with the only inspiration to keep watching coming from the bro who said: "well f#ck, I mean we've watched this much so far..". Not long after the film was stopped and we were watching 'Paul'.
I however was enjoying the sh#t out of the movie and loved the depressed little emo boy called Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who kept getting the bash. During this cross section of Owens wussy life and at the same time some Shday balding old Dude(Richard Jenkins) and his young cracked out looking Daughter (Chloe Moretz) slowly move in the pits of hell to an apartment down the hallway from where the boy lives. The whole time the boy is getting the bash it made me think of the legend that 'everyone hurts'. In this movie... when I finnally resumed the watch the night after watching the start of film before stopping for 'Paul', I could not help but resonate with the darkness. In the cold winter morning here watching some other poor emo stabbing up a tree in the snowy and icey cold because he can't sort his sh#t out, made me feel a lot better about not cleaning the bits of chicken off the leyboard from the night before.
The movie goes through some epic-same old sh#t-ness the whole way. His life sucks and Shes on some Evil sh#t... pretty much sums up the movie, the only way I could descibe it other than that would be that his life progressivley sucks more and more til breaking point and that she starts out innocent as a virgin ice fairy and turns into Carrie and Damiens crack-head-Vampire lovechild who was raised by the couple in 'The Notebook"... dunno IMO anyway. Shrug.
Wiicked watch, reminded me of Peter Jacksons 'Lovely Bones' because it doesnt really have too much of a conclusion in the traditional rainbow and sunset way. The same kind of "wtf... oh thats kinda f#cked/cool" and I def found it ironic that the little girl ends up in a trunk... the chick on Lovely Bones does too. Just the sort of Movie people who thought suicide might be just 'cool' in a melancholy way might like.
I would definatley say its like scrapeing some black heads from behind your ear... its always a bit skungy and effed up to find em there... but pulling them out with the grip of your slightly overgrown nails makes the whole process a nice blend of grotesque, depressing, painfull and deeply satisfying... in the same way that 'The Lovely Bones' was, when Mark Wahlberg runs up on the killer... then later he gets pwned off a cliff by an icicle.
Oh yeah and there is a cop too who is kinda there so that YOU remember to THINK as a loving caring normal Human.... other than that, he's a good actor going bald? and MIGHT have figured it out, probably not though... I think he's also there to re-iteratethat its supposed to be sad and depressing when aging?.
F#ck OFF with the BOTOX-IMMORTALITY mainstream media. Biggups Elias Koteas and Richard Jenkins for rocking a Friar Tuck/Kimbo Slice fade:
9 dead cock roaches out of 10.
Heres the trailer.
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