More about Let Me In

[cleolinda]

I have a bad habit, when writing about a movie, to pick an issue I think is interesting and then discuss that. The problem is, if it's a new movie that people haven't really seen yet, they end up thinking that that's all that's in the movie. This time around, I got a lot of "What about tenderness and longing and needing to be accepted!" Having not

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[cyranothe2nd]

Saw this movie this weekend. I thought that Abby was just sooooo cold. I mean, she's grooming the Father's replacement while he's still alive. I felt that everything she did with Owen, up until the time she left, was meant to tie him to her, meant to make him her thrall. I thought that maybe she had a change of heart when she left but then she came back, was watching him (good thing too, but still...).

The person I ended up feeling sorriest for was the Father. I wondered how much he'd loved her, how their relationship had changed, how he'd probably been attracted to her like Owen was and then grown older and older, felt himself to be more useless...I mean, he didn't know how to love without her. He couldn't even spell (the note said, "Im sory Abby), like he'd just stopped at 12. It was so so sad to me.

There was this beautiful moment in the beginning of the movie when the Father sees Owen outside and they both just stop and look at each other and one is seeing his past and one is seeing his future. Just broke my heart in two!

Also,about the pedo thing, in the American version, where Abby and the Father met when he was a child, it seemed obvious that they would have had a sexual relationship. But imagine growing up and growing older while your lover remained a child--it would twist something in you. So that you either accepted that you felt sexual love for a child or you begin to hate yourself for it and cut off that part of yourself, stunt yourself to boyhood. I think all the tenderness and passion had to go away to keep the Father sane and so he focuses on sustaining Abby through killing (which, why? Why didn't she do it herself? She seemed perfectly capable), maybe as a gift since he couldn't give her anything else....

IDK--I can't get this movie out of my head. I'm going to watch LTROI later this week but...there were just some creepy, beautiful moments in this that have stayed with me.