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Let the Right One In: Anything for Blood (2022)
Let The Right One In's adaptions have been slowly building toward this.
This is a loose adaption of the book, but not so loose that it doesn't deserve to use the Title of the book. Eleanor's story isn't nearly as tragic as Eli's, and Mark isn't as Horrible a person as Hakan, the character he is very loosely based on. Mark is a man who's daughter was attack by a vampire, a little over a decade ago. Mark struggles w/ feeding her and giving her a sense of normalcy in her life. Eleanor struggles w/ Loneliness, fear of loosing her father, and shame from needing blood to live. Whenever i watch an adaption, i always interpret name changes as a sign that the character will be drastically different, and that is definitely the case w/ Isaiah (stand in for Oskar character). In the book/movie when Eli meets Oskar he is stabbing a tree w/ a knife, fantasizing about killing his bullies. The only similarity between Oskar & Isaiah is that they are both bullied. Isaiah has never thought about using a weapon against his bullies. For an adaption that was never trying to be a 100% copy of the book, it's pretty good.
Les cinq diables (2022)
I think this movie needs to be watched twice. Figuring out what's going on with Vicky is the key to understanding the movie.
It's definitely a drama/mystery. There are odd things that happen surrounding the daughter, Vicky, that you aren't suppose understand from the beginning, but will be clear once you reach the end. The story is confusing, because it's meant to be, because the characters have a intense history that you don't know. It's kind of like the sixth sense where you aren't meant to understand everything the 1st time you watch it, but with the sixth sense, you didn't really know you didn't understand everything until the end. I think the problem some people have with this film is, confusing things happen surrounding Vicky, and even at the end, they don't actually have a person say IN WORDS, what's the deal with Vicky, you just have to figure it out, but it's not that hard when you think over every thing you saw. Imagine watching the sixth sense, but they never specifically referenced ghosts, and the kid never said "i see dead people", but all the evidence of him seeing dead people was there.