I'm really tempted to say the ending made the film, but I feel that would be shortchanging all the great scenes that preceded it. While I feel like there are many people who appreciate this film more than I, it was nonetheless fairly spectacular. Hitchcock horror theatrics aside, the bond formed between Eli and Oskar is something for the ages. A movie like this is a testament to how lame Hollywood is; Let The Right One In would almost certainly not have worked as an American film. And yet what I liked most about it was the plain and simple outer layer of it all. (I can't even bother to think about the possible allegories, though for some reason, I kept thinking of U.S.-Muslim relations as a possible one...?) It's definitely a film that will require many viewings to fully soak it in.
(Perhaps a good subtitle would have been "Kids in Sweden are really fucked up.")
(This is how you do Two-Face make-up. Eckhart's CGI is just a comparative fail.)
