I see why you call this forum "we, the infected".

[cmfireflies]

i wonder if Eli thinks meeting Oskar makes her suffering worth it. Probably not, unless they get to spend a few happy hundred years together.

And welcome.

[intrige]

While I can agree that a long tortured existence is not something to wish on someone, do the events in the film not suggest that happiness is that much sweeter when it has been denied for so long? Maybe I am mis-interpreting the ending.

Yes I totally agree on that, happiness is at the end, finally. Yet I would rather have Eli being normal, meeting Oskar and helping him (Helping each other) LTROI is a good story without the vampire too, that's what makes it so amazing

[Ash]

I'm chalking up only 18 months since being bitten, and nowhere in the league of those tattooing their bodies with LTROI slogans, but my interest has remained constant since then.
Welcome Takashi - and you (almost) share the name of my all-time favourite director. (No, not Takashi Miike ..... this one)

[danielma]

I just got a chance to watch this movie for the first time a couple days ago. Very odd that over the weekend I watched it 4 more times and Eli is the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning. Does this go away?

Would you believe that it's been three years since I saw this film (back in March 2009 when it had its VERY limited release here in Sydney Aus...and I do mean limited, it played in one cinema and one cinema only, at least in Sydney). Not to mention that it's been Five Years Since I first read the book.

And I can agree with others that have already posted here...No it really hasn't left me...it's still there and still as relevant as the first time I came across it.

Granted I think some of JAL's other books have taken a little more focus for me...I just wish more people were discussing them in the other sections, but LTROI still seems to be the major attraction for most...I would love to see more activity on the HTU, Harbour, or Little Star boards...

But skip to the end, No I'm still very much infected by JAL's writing as a whole

Welcome aboard Takashi and enjoy being Infected like the rest of us Rabid Crazies

[mackousko]

Hello Takashi!

First days of the infection are something special. But only time will show if you are really trapped.

[Sumsi]

For the first 4 weeks after watching the film for the first time "Eli's theme" was spining in my head all the time. It was quite ridiculous.

[pantsonparade]

I first saw this movie 2 weeks ago, and I have seen it 9 times since. I also read the book in a day I can't get enough of Let the Right One in.

[hillerr]

I just got a chance to watch this movie for the first time a couple days ago. Very odd that over the weekend I watched it 4 more times and Eli is the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning. Does this go away?

When I first saw LTROI, I was haunted by the movie for months. It was in my mind on a daily basis. For those of us who have been bullied, the themes of this movie, sadness, loneliness, feeling unloved and needing to feel that we are not alone, all are powerful. Like so many others here, LTROI touched feelings that were buried deep inside. I doubt that anyone involved with the movie could have foreseen how it impacted so many people in such a deep way.

Yes, haunting effect does go away. But in my case, certainly not overnight.

[a_contemplative_life]

I just got a chance to watch this movie for the first time a couple days ago. Very odd that over the weekend I watched it 4 more times and Eli is the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning. Does this go away?

When I first saw LTROI, I was haunted by the movie for months. It was in my mind on a daily basis. For those of us who have been bullied, the themes of this movie, sadness, loneliness, feeling unloved and needing to feel that we are not alone, all are powerful. Like so many others here, LTROI touched feelings that were buried deep inside. I doubt that anyone involved with the movie could have foreseen how it impacted so many people in such a deep way.

Yes, haunting effect does go away. But in my case, certainly not overnight.

hiller, glad to see you posting! Been awhile, I think...?

[Ash]

I actually zipped through the DVD to watch the ending before I watched the full movie to see if I liked how it ended.
So it was the end of the film that made me want to watch it because I loved how they left together and just walked away, leaving their fate is unknown.
"This is my kind of film" I thought. And I wasn't wrong. If it had ended with Oskar looking at Eli leave in the taxi, I probably wouldn't have bothered watching it at all.