Apr-07-2011, 03:01 PM (UTC)
LET ME IN would be a great, gripping, lovely, exciting, unique film if there wasn't a Swedish film called LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.
The acting is a bit better in the American version but there's just an other worldliness to the original. The idea that Sweden as a pure, clean, orderly place is deconstructed in LTROI. It's dirty, people are drunk and not everything works.
Don't remake good films, remake bad ones...or reinterpret good ones. But essentially a shot for shot remake of a film is pointless.
The acting is a bit better in the American version but there's just an other worldliness to the original. The idea that Sweden as a pure, clean, orderly place is deconstructed in LTROI. It's dirty, people are drunk and not everything works.
Don't remake good films, remake bad ones...or reinterpret good ones. But essentially a shot for shot remake of a film is pointless.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
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