Film Analysis: Let The Right One In

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Let the Right One In In the motion picture Let the Right One In I think Tomas Alfredson is trying to show the lonely emotional truths every child faces. Feelings of lonesomeness can be universal in children no matter how different the two children may be, such as a human boy compared to a vampire girl for example. The lack of family and friends leaves a child alone without any attention and people are social beings who long for interaction and human contact. Alfredson brings these emotions to life on screen and helps us understand how want of companionship is able to bring the most unlikely of friends together. One example of these lonesome truths I stated is the fact that both the main characters, Oskar and Eli in the…show more content…
People, who have ever felt in a strange or unknown place where they were left to look out for themselves, if even for a little while, can relate to the feeling of abandon Oskar and Eli must share. Eli’s case of loneliness is more understandable than Oskar’s, she has no choice because she is a vampire and seclusion just comes with the territory. For Eli, relationships and friends would be dangerous to her health; the continuance of her existence relies heavily upon isolation from the outside world to keep her secret of being a vampire safe from the public eye. On one of her first interactions with Oskar you see this fear of getting close when she ends their meeting with a forewarning that she cannot be his friend. As Eli opens up to Oskar more through their interactions Alfredson shows that she is longing for friendship and eventually trusts Oskar to share her secret. This is important because to tell Oskar her secret is to put her own life at risk, so by doing this she takes a leap of faith that he’ll accept her and they can be friends thus ridding her of the shackles of being alone in the world. Oskar’s case on the hand is very different. Oskar is a human boy who just does not have the social skills to fit in so he’s very misunderstood in my opinion. His friendless situation in the beginning seems to…show more content…
Oskar and Elis’ extreme differences physically do not interfere with their emotional similarities. They both come from families that aren’t very supportive and they both are outcasts in the world different from the people around them. These two children find each other and it’s their common feelings of lonesomeness that bring them together to become friends and it is how the form a strong bond for one
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