tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post6585922883182590963..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: The Means Are Not the ThingLoren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-2506569989663075492009-11-04T13:24:27.643-05:002009-11-04T13:24:27.643-05:00Did you think that Oskar was merely supposed to be...Did you think that Oskar was merely supposed to be a replacement for Håkan (the guy with the gas mask and the knife)? Interesting. I thought their (Oskar's and Eli's) relationship was almost exclusively romantic, given that they're tapping K-I-S-S to each other in Morse code in that last shot. Not that either is completely sympathetic by the end.<br /><br />That underwater scene, though -- <i>wow</i>.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-70136092745024074522009-11-04T13:15:53.540-05:002009-11-04T13:15:53.540-05:00"Let the Right One In" managed to be sca..."Let the Right One In" managed to be scary in a stay-with-you sort of way, especially (for me) the very final scene, when I realized what Eli's purpose had been all along in courting Oskar's friendship. More ewww-inducing scares don't stick around much longer than it takes me to focus my thoughts on rainbows and butterflies.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06857603291286696011noreply@blogger.com