Let the Right One In
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Introduction
This research guide has been created to support the Year 12 Media Production and Analysis students studying Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In).
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. " (Nordling, 2008)
Nordling, J. (2008) Let the Right One In. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl
Official Website
- Magnolia Pictures. (2001). Let the Right One In. Retrieved from http://www.magnetreleasing.com/lettherightonein/'Let the Right One In' official site. BASED ON THE BEST SELLER BY JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST
Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night moves in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. As Oskar becomes more aware of Eli’s tragic plight, he cannot forsake her. However, Eli knows that to continue living, she must keep relocating. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can...
Let the Right One In Trailer
Alfredson, T. (Director). (2008). Let the Right One In [Motion Picture].
Summary
- IMDb. (2008). Let the Right One In. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/IMDb, an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.
Tomas Alfredson (Director)
- Billington, A. (2008, October). Interview: Let the Right One In Director Tomas Alfredson. Retrieved from http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/interview-let-the-right-one-in-director-tomas-alfredson/Tomas Alfredson: It was the love story that is so unsentimental, this story about the bullied boy. I guess I had some periods when I grew up, when I was bullied, and I think that was the thing that struck me the hardest or hit me the hardest. I read the book three years ago, a friend of mine gave it to me, which I usually hate when people stick books into your hands. That's kind of private -- to choose your own reading or viewing or music. But this one was an exception. And the vampire part of it was, well, it came with the other things. I'm not a horror director at all, so I've been mostly been doing drama and comedy before, so this is my first horrifying project.
- Lewis, M. (2017, September). Meet Tomas Alfredson: the best director you've never heard of. Retrieved from https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2017/09/26/meet-tomas-alfredson-best-director-youve-never-heardIn their home country of Sweden, the Alfredson clan are neck-and-neck with the Skarsgärd family of Vikings when it comes to a dynasty of filmmakers. His father, Hans Alfredson, was a legendary director, author and actor who began his onscreen career in 1965 and passed away just this month at the age of 86.
His brother, Daniel, has almost the same level of hype surrounding him as Tomas given he too is a skilled director and was behind the camera on the Swedish adaptations of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest television series and films (with Hans also acting in the final one). - Miyazaki, H. (2001). The Purpose of the Film. Retrieved from https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Exclusive-Interview-Let-Right-One-Director-Tomas-Alfredson-10607.htmlThat silence, both in movies and everywhere else, is something Alfredson says is "very Swedish," and is just one of the things that makes Let the Right One In such a strange, invigorating film. Alfredson intentionally set the movie during the deep, dark Swedish winter, surrounded by snowdrifts, in order to capture-- you guessed it--the silence. "It's a very special sound after a heavy snowfall," Alfredson said, adding that he paid special attention to the smallest sounds that the bodies of the actors made. "[We had] a scene where we micced their eyes. A lot of human body sounds."
