★★★☆ (4 stars out of 10) I looked at the young people who influenced goth fashion and guessed they wanted to keep a distance and declare: Leather can be taken off, but tattoos are not that easy. Many body parts are relatively painless to be pierced. But what does it feel like to be pierced by a vampire's fangs? That's not just a fad, is it? And you don't want to declare yourself a vampire. "No Man's Entry" is a "vampire movie", but it's not at all what we mean by that word. It's very frustrating. It places as much emphasis on vampires as Murnau and Herzog's Nosferatu. It also painfully describes the tension between two 12-year-olds on the verge of puberty. It's not for 12 year olds. The film begins with Oscar calmly looking at the reflection outside the window. He might remind you of the boy looking out the train window in Bergman's "Silence." They both have a lot to deal with calmly. There will be a lot of images in the movie, not all of them are in the mirror, but it's not one of those vampire stories that drag out crosses and garlic. Oscar is lonely. His parents were separated, no one wanted him, and he was often alone. On snowy nights in Sweden, he wandered around. One night, he met a child about his age named Ellie. Ellie was lonely too, and they became friends. Oscar has reached an age where he can calmly accept the surprising because life has stopped trying to surprise him. Ellie walks in the snow without shoes. Ellie had a faint smell, almost… the smell of a corpse. He asked Ellie: "Are you a vampire?" Yes. Oh. They decided to spend the night in his bed. Oscar isn't sexually aware yet, but he asks, "Will you be my girlfriend?" She strokes him gently: "Oscar, I'm not a girl." Oh. Oscar is bullied at school by a sadistic bully who nearly drowns Oscar in a swimming pool with two punks. At times like this, having a vampire friend is still useful. It doesn't really matter whether the vampire is a girl or a boy. I haven't even begun to describe the Thomas Alfredson-directed film based on his novel by John Avid Lindquist. I'm not going to explore Ellie's relationship with a nasty middle-aged man named Hokan. Maybe he was an acquaintance of his, maybe he just liked blood. I'm also not going to talk about iron bars and knives, or Oscar's horrible parents, I've made it frustrating enough, but there will still be some fun moments. Vampire jokes, you know. "Are you really my age?" Oscar asked Ellie. " Yes, but I've been at this age for a long time. "Desperate for the vampire element, this is a story about two lonely, desperate children who are capable of doing nefarious acts with no apparent emotion. The children are washed up on shores of despair. The young actors are great in their roles. Powerful. We care more about them than they care about themselves. Alfredson uses tones so lacking in warmth that even blood is black. We know vampires are invited to enter a room. Now, the title says Makes sense. Footnote: Jeremy Knox of Film Threat loved the movie as much as I did, but the difference. He wrote: "I would even say it's going to be a great dating movie. The woman will be soft-hearted. Not only that, but it's also a movie for 10-16 year olds. Little kids, especially girls, will love this movie. Yes, there's some blood and a very brief nudity scene in the movie, but just because they're young doesn't mean they're stupid. The kids will totally understand. "Well, they'll be scolded.
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