(Låt den rätte komma in)

Director:

Tomas Alfredson

Writer:

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Starring:

KÃ¥re Hedebrant
Lina Leandersson
Henrik Dahl    
Per Ragnar
Karin Bergquist
Peter Carlberg
Ika Nord

Let the Right one in great movie. It is about a twelve year old boy named Oskar “KÃ¥re Hedebrant” who lives in a building complex in Sweden . He is tormented and not the most popular kid at school, picked on by the bullies. Actually quite a few bullies. Well one day after coming home from school he goes outside to relieve some of the tension from the school day. By picking at the tree in front with his pocket knife talking to himself, about what he wants to say to the bullies, “Squeal, piggy squeal”. Then meets his new next door neighbor standing above him . up on the jungle gym. A young brunette girl that has just moved in next door. He is in so need of a friend that , that he makes a point to meet this girl outside every night and slowly they become best of friends. Yet, the young girl “Lina Leandersson” has a very big secret that is hard to keep, even from his new friend Oskar.

The movie is a very quiet film. The director “Tomas Alfredson” really want people to pay attention to what is going on screen with the subtleties of the scenery. The acting by KÃ¥re Hedebrant and Eli “Lina Leandersson” is actually very well done.  KÃ¥re Hedebrant could not do a better job playing a shy twelve year old boy. Let the Right One In does have its gory scenes. Especially the hospital scene is a bit shocking, to see how her father hurts himself. Otherwise, done in tasteful way compared to all horror films that I have seen. The photography actually does bring you into the cold winter of Sweden . Especially with the feeling of the coldness and stillness of the night in winter, along with the beautiful soft classical music playing, every now and then.

I wouldn’t really call this your typical vampire movie or even a horror film. The reason being this is a story about friendship and love at a young age. Yes Lina Leandersson is a vampire but, they are really just two kids that find eachother and end up being best of friends. A great movie and should do better in the theater that it probably will. Hats off to Tomas Alfredson, and hope to see more of his work in the future. Absolutly a chilling tail, of where you can find love and friendship in the strangest places.

Director:

Mark Herman

Writers:

John Boyne
Mark Herman

Starring:

Asa Butterfield
Vera Farmiga
David Thewlis
Jack Scanlon

Quote:

Who are all those people on the farm?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas written by John Boyne and directed by Mark Herman. It is the story of a young boy, age eight, named Bruno “Asa Butterfield”, living during World War II in Germany. Its in the middle of World War II, and Bruno’s father is an officer in the Nazi regime. Well, one day his father comes home and says, ” I have been promoted.”, then asks his family, if they wouldn’t mind moving away from Berlin to keep his promotion, in addition to living in a new home. Bruno’s mother and father make the final decision, they decide to move from the luxurious home to keep his promotion. Turns out they end up moving to a huge, concrete, bunker-like, house outside a military base. Bruno in his curiosity stop to look out the window to see where his father works. All he sees are strange people walking around in the distance .He asks if he can go play with the children on the farm that he can see out his window. His parents forbid him even to go into the backyard of their house. His parents decide to shelter poor Bruno, from the fact that his father is actually running a concentration camp. The boy can’t help his curiosity and pure boredom, of living with no friends, only to entertain himself to go exploring beyond his front yard. Not only just into the forbidden backyard, but off the property of his fenced off home. To go investigate the farm he can see so distantly, from the window in his house. Only to discover in his eyes , a small farmer boy sitting near the outer fence dressed in stripped pajamas.

I wish I could tell you everything about this story. However, that would just spoil the whole movie. It is a very touching and a bit of a sad movie. To see this young boy Bruno, slowly find out that the people living in the distance; that his father is watching over is not actually a farm at all. It shows the antisemitism towards the Jews in World War II and the abuse they suffered in concentration camps. Most of it all this movie makes the point, that whatever people may think, we are just human beings. Furthermore, that hatred can only run so deep. I highly recommend that you see this film , the cast of this movie could not have been better. Especially the two young boys Asa Butterfield, also Jack Scanlon playing “Shmuel”, the young Jewish boy. You will find this movie very touching nevertheless, hard not to stay out of grasp of this films sorrow.

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