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Kole 2021-11-12 08:01:15

After being deceived by "Twilight", the anticipation of the vampire movie fell into place again. Starting from "Ratu of North", vampire movies are just based on a virtual vampire theory and traditional improvements, which are boring and lack breakthroughs.
A four-hundred-year-old story about the love between an adult vampire and a human girl. If the power of a vampire is stuck in the aversion to immortality and the cliche love, I don't know how long that gothic and gloomy charm can last.

And the unfolding of "Don't Get Near" makes people almost uncertain whether this is a vampire movie, and I often think that I am watching the infant version of "Elephant". This is not so much a vampire-themed film, but rather an independent film that discusses school violence and the lack of safety of minors. There is no exquisite Gothic architecture, no beauty as white as snow, only a few lonely and boring children, living a boring life in a world where the voice of adults can hardly be heard. It looks deserted and beautiful.

This atypical vampire movie has many typical classic movies.
1: The "Elephant" mentioned before, even the boy's appearance is almost a copy of "Elephant", and school violence is one of the most important themes of "Life".
2: Remember the little girl Teresa in "Silent Hill"? Long black hair, heavy dark circles and pale face. Does the "girl" on the cover look like Teresa's transformation again?
The most significant similarity between "Life" and "Silent" lies in the unstoppable mood of revenge throughout the story. Both stories are revenge initiated by weak children like a cold and cruel adult world. Both the burned Teresa and the castrated "girl" were victims of the adult world. They quietly licked their wounds, spent decades or hundreds of years in revenge, and eventually became bloodthirsty demons. Isn't this just the same vagueness? Adults hurt children, waiting for the broken children to grow up and become a new round of monsters.
3: There is also a favorite film called "The Peerless Demon Girl", which tells the story of a great castrated singer who was deprived of the dignity of a man's body and lived a stubborn and wonderful life. In the film, the eunuch boy who was misunderstood as a "girl" seems to exist in the same way with a humiliating body, so plump as to preserve the bloody nature of a man.
So when the protagonist little boy was bullied, it was "she" who stood up and shouted and told the little boy "Be me a little!". This is the courage and dignity that a man who has survived for 200 years can live out.

Although "Don't Get Near" borrows classic films from the past in many ways, it doesn't seem to conceal its excellence, because it is not a simple and clumsy imitation, but has nothing to do with forgetting any film. temperament. On this point, the film "Snowy Night Lonely Mutter" has already expressed quite a lot.
The allusions about learning and transcendence in the ancient Chinese sayings are really endless, but there are very few modern people who can take the longest and claim to be styles like "Don't Get Near". Those so-called new-style and unique films are mostly grotesquely narrative. I wonder if people are gradually forgetting the fine tradition of learning. In fact, if you can really learn the film into 70% similar to Hitchcock, Kurosawa Akira, and Kitano, why not imitate it?

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  • Hans 2021-11-12 08:01:15

    It's not exciting at all. . . Rhythm and narrative are not smart

  • Liam 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Castrated vampires and human love!

Let the Right One In quotes

  • Lacke: Thank you again for another evening steeped in merriment and friendship.

  • Oskar: Are you a vampire?

    Eli: I live off blood... Yes.

    Oskar: Are you... dead?

    Eli: No. Can't you tell?

    Oskar: But... Are you old?

    Eli: I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.