Child Vampire for Adults
- By Jason Latorre
- Published 11/22/2008
Jason Latorre
I'm Jason and yea I'm that 20 something year old who goes to film school, but don't worry I don't think I know everything about film. I'm attending Emerson College in Boston, where I'm pursuing my BA in Film Production with a focus in Directing. Insert cliche phrase about passion here... Film is my life. I'm in love with both films and movies(big difference). Sometimes we make sweet love and other times I'm just yelling then we make angry love. If you backed me in a corner and asked my favorite movie I would have
to say Moulin Rouge by Baz Luhrman, but only if we are excluding the
original Star Wars Trilogy. Sorry, but first movie I remember seeing was
Return of the Jedi. I will try and hit from different angles on a variety of subjects plus bring great reviews of current and future releases. Stick with me kids cause I've got the good candy and I won't overcharge you for it.
Children are interesting. They are what we once were and often times wish to be. They see things in such innocent ways without the complications of responsibility to society. There is only a responsibility to the individual they care about the most.
So now take that concept and apply it to a situation that any adult would consider wrong and you have Let The Right One In.
This film works on so many levels because it forces you to rethink what vampires do is wrong. Is it wrong to want to survive? Is it fair to deprive someone of something they have been desiring their entire life just because that thing is doing what society considers to be wrong?
Vampires are a tired subject in Hollywood on a level of horror, so much so that now teenage vampire love is being exploited for box office dollars.
Thankfully a foreign filmmaker has the genius to re-imagine not vampires, but the morality surrounding vampires in its most innocent form... a child.
Bravo.
Watch Let The Right One In as soon as you can.






