We, The Infected

The Swedish verb försvinna (imperative försvinn! ) was actually borrowed from German in the middle ages. The pronunciation still is sufficiently similar that a speaker of one of the languages would easily understand it if uttered in the other one. Another interesting cognate is Gewehr and gevär (ri...

Last week, I came across a thematic analysis of LMI and LTROI on WTI's Facebook page. It helped lead me to re-watch Let Me In for the first time in a few years on Sunday. Since, then I've commented elsewhere about how it illustrates losing innocence , sharing some criticism of the film, and why I st...

Both Siggdalos and Sauvin are correct, Susanne Ruben makes a fleeting appearance in both of these scenes. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50974087741_be6b77bfec_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50974179102_9ac5429336_z.jpg Never noticed that about the basement scene. I always thought L...

...There might be a couple of things to mind here. One is that LTROI's "piggy" might be more than you think because this isn't the Anglosphere, and (knowing nothing of Swedish culture or values) it could be that porcinity has connotations for Swedish folk that don't occur outside Scandinavian cultu...

According to Wikipedia, a third actress (Susanne Ruben) was hired to play an "aged Eli."

I don't remember Eli's voice or appearance changing at any point in the film (unless one counts the feeding and bleeding scenes.) Did I miss something, or is Wikipedia pulling our leg?

cmfireflies wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:40 am

Hi BurgerPrince,

Welcome back, I'm glad I read your take on LMI.

Thanks! Glad you appreciate it.

...I, by comparison, have not considered that the depth of Abby's love for Owen to be stronger than what she ever felt for Thomas. My view has been that she was once just as much committed to young Thomas as she is now to Owen. In LMI, there is a very short view of a strip of picture film negatives...

I have more to say after fully catching up on the thread. "Little girl" was a better insult than "piggy" not simply because it's more thematic but because it's more realistic. Bullying is often gendered and sexualized. When I was in middle school, "piggy," unless cleverly directed against a fat kid,...

As I wrote the script is in the Swedish version of Let the Old Dreams Die . The English book with this name contains the stories of Pappersväggar , a collection of short stories, with the addition of the short story Let the Old Dreams Die. The script I referred to isn't published in other languages...

Well, John was already a grown up man when his father died. He talked about it in a radio program, the script was later published in the Swedish version of Let the Old Dreams Die . But one might still say that he lost his father as a child, when his parents divorced. Below is a link to the radio pr...