Tuesday, November 01, 2011
In the spirit of the holiday we watched a vampire movie last night, Tomas Alfredson's 2008 Let the Right One In. Vampires are pretty much always in vogue, and there's lots more vampire scholarship out there than I'd ever care to wade through, but this movie impressed me as rather unusual. The link between sex and death is central to the vampire myth, as is the contrast between innocence and experience, but in this movie we come to understand the "victim" in a more complicated way than I think I've seen in this genre.
// posted by Bill @ 12:21 PM 
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