2) The trailer encourages you to watch the film because of the small amount of the plot it gives away, the plot shows two children becoming friends and falling in love. However the trailer reveals a twist which is that the girl, Eli, is a vampire. This small part of the plot that is revealed is something out of the ordinary for the horror genre, love is never part of the key plot in horror films and because a film has taken that emotion and incorporated it into a film such as this it has introduced something new, and most of the time people wish to see something new and fresh.
3) Familiar conventions;
Eli the vampire sustains her appearance and youth when she drinks blood however the fact that she only has the appearance of a 10 year old gives a different approach to this also she unwillingly kills people to drink they're blood. These two factors offer a difference to the normal conventions we are used to seeing , we generally assume vampires are evil but yet in this film there is a child who takes the blood of others because she has too not out of choice and we would consider a child good not bad.
b) Another familiar convention that is showed in Let the right one in is that vampires can not be in direct sunlight we see a different take on this in the scene where a woman who has recently been turned into a vampire asks a doctor to open the blinds and she bursts into flames, we usually think that vampires burn and turn to ash or stone when they are in contact with sunlight, not erupt into a fire ball.
4) The sense of being of an outsider is represented through the way that Oskar has no friends throughout the film only Eli, also others take pity on him such as the bullies friends. As well as Oskar having no friends we also see that he has no confidence in himself when he pretends to stab the boy bullying him but in reality his just stabbing a tree. However this confidence grows when he becomes closer to Eli as we see Oskar going to the gym, possibly to impress Eli, and he hits the bully in the face with a stick. We also see that Eli is an outsider more out of necessity than anything else we see she wears normal clothes the majority of the time, however she never wears any shoes probably because she is unable to feel the cold also the fact that she is a vampire and is unable to go out in the daylight and play like a normal child doesn't help her fitting in.
5) Despite the fact that Eli is a vampire I think she seems like a nice child if you just subtract the undead thing. The reason I think this is because she offers advice and comforts Oskar when he's in need of it, in addition she isn't afraid of trying new thing like when she tries one of Oskars sweets. However even though I like Eli I didn't like Oskar mainly for the reason that when he finds out that Eli is a vampire he starts insulting her which is a stupid thing to do. Also I feel that Oskar is far to easily pushed around by everyone and I think his life would be better if he stood up for himself.
6) Aspects of narrative that appealed to me was the casualness that everyone had for example when the murders start happening Oskar's mum sends him to live with his dad until the murderer is caught or the murders are stopped but in the build up to Oskar moving he asks his mum if he can play outside and his mum just replies don't leave the front.
7) I can't imagine the film without Eli being a vampire as I am unsure what the plot of the film would be if she wasn't a vampire it would just seem pointless without the twist in the story.
8) Because of the domestic view of vampire life we get we are encouraged to be scared of the vampire figure reasons for this are when you see Eli's dad like figure go out and kill for her you see how casual he is about it and it looks like he is just going out to work when he is packing. Also we see the strength of Eli when she kills a fully grown man in the subway which again feeds fear to us. Furthermore Eli kills her dad like figure when he is in hospital which again gives us a sense of fear because of the lengths she will go through to stay alive. However we also see that Eli has a compassionate side that she reveals around Oskar which decreases the amount of fear we have for the vampire figure.
9) Eli's father both conforms and diverts to the typical stereotype of the vampire, we see that he loves her but also that he fears her equally as much. Furthermore with the way that he is portrayed you understand that it isn't he who is in charge but Eli his daughter. I feel this is an exaggerated view of the normal father daughter relationship as fathers stereotypically are laid back when it comes to giving their daughters what they want. Because of the way that Eli's father lives Eli is able to live with the one small comfort that somebody is still there for her, that is until she kills him.
10) I felt that the relationship between Eli and her father was teetering dangerously we see this we he returns home empty handed without any blood when he is almost discovered killing an innocent man, Eli slaps her father and storms away leaving the father in pity thinking about the life he has chosen, this gives the audience a sense that Eli is dangerous to be around and we sympathies for Eli's dad. However a scene that contrasts this is the scene just before she kills him where she is at the hospital window and looks deeply concerned for her dad and looks at him with love and thankfulness because he has stuck with her for however many years they had been together. This makes the audience feel sorry for both characters and we wish that they could both live normal lives without having to secretly murder.
5) Despite the fact that Eli is a vampire I think she seems like a nice child if you just subtract the undead thing. The reason I think this is because she offers advice and comforts Oskar when he's in need of it, in addition she isn't afraid of trying new thing like when she tries one of Oskars sweets. However even though I like Eli I didn't like Oskar mainly for the reason that when he finds out that Eli is a vampire he starts insulting her which is a stupid thing to do. Also I feel that Oskar is far to easily pushed around by everyone and I think his life would be better if he stood up for himself.
6) Aspects of narrative that appealed to me was the casualness that everyone had for example when the murders start happening Oskar's mum sends him to live with his dad until the murderer is caught or the murders are stopped but in the build up to Oskar moving he asks his mum if he can play outside and his mum just replies don't leave the front.
7) I can't imagine the film without Eli being a vampire as I am unsure what the plot of the film would be if she wasn't a vampire it would just seem pointless without the twist in the story.
8) Because of the domestic view of vampire life we get we are encouraged to be scared of the vampire figure reasons for this are when you see Eli's dad like figure go out and kill for her you see how casual he is about it and it looks like he is just going out to work when he is packing. Also we see the strength of Eli when she kills a fully grown man in the subway which again feeds fear to us. Furthermore Eli kills her dad like figure when he is in hospital which again gives us a sense of fear because of the lengths she will go through to stay alive. However we also see that Eli has a compassionate side that she reveals around Oskar which decreases the amount of fear we have for the vampire figure.
9) Eli's father both conforms and diverts to the typical stereotype of the vampire, we see that he loves her but also that he fears her equally as much. Furthermore with the way that he is portrayed you understand that it isn't he who is in charge but Eli his daughter. I feel this is an exaggerated view of the normal father daughter relationship as fathers stereotypically are laid back when it comes to giving their daughters what they want. Because of the way that Eli's father lives Eli is able to live with the one small comfort that somebody is still there for her, that is until she kills him.
10) I felt that the relationship between Eli and her father was teetering dangerously we see this we he returns home empty handed without any blood when he is almost discovered killing an innocent man, Eli slaps her father and storms away leaving the father in pity thinking about the life he has chosen, this gives the audience a sense that Eli is dangerous to be around and we sympathies for Eli's dad. However a scene that contrasts this is the scene just before she kills him where she is at the hospital window and looks deeply concerned for her dad and looks at him with love and thankfulness because he has stuck with her for however many years they had been together. This makes the audience feel sorry for both characters and we wish that they could both live normal lives without having to secretly murder.
