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[film] Let Me In
Dec. 14th, 2011 03:55 pmSo, a couple weeks ago Lovefilm finally sent us the remake of Let The Right One In. I always have to watch the English-language remakes of foreign films I like, just to see what gets done with them.
The good news is, it hasn't been all Hollywood-ized and glammed up. It's very faithful to the Swedish version, to the extent that some of the playground outside the apartment block shots could be frame-for-frame. It's a bit shorter, so that the minor characters are really nothing but vampire food, but that's not a big quibble.
In fact, it's so close to the original, that I ended up just feeling "why did they bother?" Aside from people who won't watch anything with subtitles, but most of those people wouldn't watch something this "art-cinema" anyway.
The good news is, it hasn't been all Hollywood-ized and glammed up. It's very faithful to the Swedish version, to the extent that some of the playground outside the apartment block shots could be frame-for-frame. It's a bit shorter, so that the minor characters are really nothing but vampire food, but that's not a big quibble.
In fact, it's so close to the original, that I ended up just feeling "why did they bother?" Aside from people who won't watch anything with subtitles, but most of those people wouldn't watch something this "art-cinema" anyway.
