Twilight vs Let The Right One In
Napanood nyo na? Comments naman please. I'll start. I like both.
It's hard to say which one is better. I liked both.
Twilight is first and foremost a love story. But LTROI is primarily a horror story.
Twilight's vampire heroes are attractive people, an adoptive family that lives in a gorgeous house that looks like it's been featured in a magazine spread. To make sure that audience sympathy is on their side, our vampire heroes are written as "vegetarians," or vampires who choose to survive only on animal blood. Typical Hollywood.
On the other hand, LTROI's vampires are unattractive, dirty, and live in a decrepit apartment. Their victims are humans who suffer horrific deaths in their hands. Yet the movie still manages to get the audience to sympathize with those vampires.
LTROI's cinematography is masterful. Scenes of brutal gore are either from a long shot or off-cam, yet those scenes are no less shockingly gruesome --- perhaps even more so, because they achieve the verité of a newsreel shot that a close-up with CGI can never duplicate.
Many bloggers are predicting that a Hollywood remake of "Let the Right One In" is inevitable. Watch the Swedish original as soon as you can, before Hollywood ruins it.
