"Blood Invasion" tells the story of such a little vampire, and captures the mood of a little vampire from such an angle. "Blood Invasion" is a Swedish film based on a novel "Scarlet Fairy Tale" that I like very much. The novel was a bestseller by Swedish author Johan Lindkvist and won the Swedish Literature Prize after its launch in 2004. In the original novel, many subtle events are used to describe the mood and situation of the characters. The movie is limited by the length of the film and has partially cut the story, but in terms of the overall structure and atmosphere, it basically maintains the same style and style as the original novel. The tonality presents the loneliness and loneliness in it with the snow in the northern country, the sparse dialogue, and the sad eyes.
"Blood Invasion" director Thomas Alfred Ryson, a young and up-and-coming director, had the idea of adapting the original novel "Scarlet Fairy Tale" for the first time after he read it for the first time, because few literary works can Both literary and storytelling, few literary novels can have such a strong sense of picture. However, when Thomas went to the publishing house to discuss copyright matters, he was told that he had to take a number and wait in line for the meeting, and Thomas got the number 40! After "Blood Invasion" was released in 2008, it won more than 50 awards around the world, making Thomas Ivordryson a hot international director overnight, and "Blood Invasion" is only the second film he directed. .
There are two protagonists in "Blood Invasion", one is a twelve-year-old teenager Oscar, and the other is a twelve-year-old vampire Eli. Oscar is the son of a single parent who has been bullied at school for years, beaten, forced to eat bugs, given ridiculous nicknames, and thrown into a urinal. Oscar is a lonely child without any friends. He never tells his mother about being bullied. He always fantasizes that he becomes stronger and can take revenge on his classmates who bullied him. Oscar occasionally goes to live with his father. There are signs that Oscar's father may have a "male companion". Oscar has not asked, and his relationship with his father cannot be called close.
Eli looks like a girl with long black hair. In the middle of the night, Eli and a middle-aged man moved into the apartment next door to Oscar's. Since then, the snow-covered town has been no longer peaceful, and disappearances and deaths have occurred one after another. Eli never went out, and the middle-aged man often left the house late at night. Every time the middle-aged man leaves home, he always takes a black suitcase with a crocodile jet, a rope, a funnel and a container, so that after fascinating the victim, he can be hung upside down and bled into the container . The relationship between the middle-aged man and Eli was never explained in the film, only that the man was willing to kill and take blood for Eli, and to destroy his appearance with strong acid to protect Eli's safety when his deeds were exposed.
Eli would occasionally sit alone at night in the small park in front of his apartment, where he saw Oscar holding a knife, stabbing into trees, and shouting vicious revenge. Oscar and Eli are friends without children, excluded, inferior and lonely. The relationship between the two quickly progressed from estrangement to familiarity. Oscar told Eli about being bullied at school, and Eli began to bathe every day to remove the odor and dirt from his body. The two also met to learn Morse. password, so that you can talk and chat through the adjacent wall panel at all times. Oscar and Eli finally have companions of the same age.
The good times didn't last long. An accident happened to the middle-aged man who accompanied Eli, and he was discovered when he was about to attack a young student. The middle-aged man immediately destroyed his appearance so that the police could not confirm his identity, thus cutting off any leads to Eli. That night, with bare feet, Eli stepped over the white snow, climbed the high-rise building of the hospital, and visited the middle-aged man through the window glass. When the middle-aged man saw Eli, he gave Eli the last thing he could give - he let Eli drain the blood from himself, and then fell through the window. From now on, Eli will be alone again. He should leave this town immediately, but he can't bear to make his friend Oscar....
Eli no longer deliberately hides the fact that he is a vampire from Oscar. On the night the middle-aged man died, Eli came to Oscar's window on the second floor and asked Oscar to say the word "please come in". The vampire must be invited by the owner of the room to enter the room. After entering the door, Eli climbed onto the bed and leaned against Oscar's back, using Oscar's body temperature to drive away the loneliness in his heart. After that, Eli told Oscar one after another about his true identity and past stories, and also let Oscar enter his apartment and see the rudimentary things there. There was nothing in Eli's apartment, the windows were covered with thick posters, and there were sheets of cardboard on the wall next to Oscar's room. Eli slept during the day. He had been sleeping in the bathtub in the bathroom. The reason why he put cardboard on the wall was to lie on his head at night and talk to Oscar through Morse code. This brief exchange, It was Eli's only joy in the long night. Eli cherishes and values Oscar very deeply. Once Oscar refused to invite Eli who came outside the door, and asked a little sullenly and provocatively what would happen if he did not say please come in, but Eli forced entry. Eli stared straight at the arrogance in Oscar's eyes. After the two were deadlocked for a while, Eli stepped into the house, and instantly blood spurted out from Eli's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. Oscar never tests Eli's feelings for himself again.
After the death of the middle-aged man, Eli had to go out to find food by himself, which inevitably exposed his tracks. A woman becomes Eli's victim, and the woman's husband witnesses Eli's stature. After the woman's death, the woman's husband found Eli's apartment and saw Eli lying in the bathtub in the bathroom. When the man took out the knife in his pocket and stabbed Eli, Oscar, who had been hiding in the house and was timid and cowardly, rushed out to stop him, and Eli was awakened by the voices of the two. Eli sucked the man's blood and killed the man. In this regard, Oscar has no fear or remorse, and the long-term bullying has made Oscar understand that the emotional connection Eli brought him is more precious than anything else. Just as Eli was changing out of the blood-stained clothes, Oscar caught a glimpse of Eli's lower body without genitals, and Eli was neither a woman nor a man. Despite this, Oscar couldn't help kissing Eli. In Oscar's mind, gender, age, and identity didn't matter, and Eli was the only thing in his life of nothing.
Eli left, and he left a note telling Oscar that he really liked him, but it was no longer safe here, and he had to leave. However, the story of the two is not over yet. Although Eli no longer appeared, he still secretly looked after Oscar in the dark. Thanks to Eli's encouragement, Oscar became stronger, and he fought back when he was bullied by his classmates, but he also got himself into even more trouble. The boy who was injured by Oscar found his brother, and while Oscar was practicing swimming in the swimming pool, he tricked the teacher out and drove the other classmates away. The boy's brother pressed Oscar's body tightly into the pool, frantically trying to drown Oscar. At a critical moment, Eli appeared and angrily dismembered and murdered all those people. When Oscar surfaced and slowly woke up, he showed a delighted smile to Eli in front of him.
Oscar sat alone on the train with a huge suitcase at his feet. Oscar put his hand on the suitcase and typed out a series of letters in Morse code, and the same long and short sounds came from the suitcase. It came out that the string of sounds formed four letters, which were: PUSS (KISS).
"Blood Invasion" is an independent European production, so the style is simple, realistic, and cold. Although this is a horror movie about vampires, it maintains the artistic conception and atmosphere that the original novel wants to express, using simple scenes, A large number of long shots and oblique close-ups show the loneliness and sadness of the two protagonists. As for the handling of horror images, it adopts a calm, restrained, and realistic approach, does not deliberately brew a tense atmosphere, and does not try to beautify or vilify the killing scenes. After all, the story is about the feelings of two children who were excluded from the world. The over-exaggerated techniques and commercial lens selection inevitably lowered the style of the film.
In the original novel, the author explained the identity of the middle-aged man, Eli's upbringing, and also described the killing ability of vampires in more detail, as well as the deep horror brought to the town. Although the lack of these elements inevitably leaves some holes in the film's narrative, it also better focuses on the acquaintance and sympathy between Eli and Oscar. Because the vampire tale is gaining popularity, American producer JJ Abraham has taken over the rights to remake the American version. Judging from the released film, the characters are taking the handsome route of "Twilight", and the ability of vampires is even more exaggerated, which should be purely commercial production.
Compared to traditional vampire works, "Blood Invasion" depicts vampires from a different but more realistic angle. Although the little vampire Eli has powerful abilities, he is only a child after all, a child who has no friends of the same age, is not accepted, and is constantly being chased and killed. From the perspective of people, this is a life like a pest, a must The monster to get rid of. But from Oscar's point of view, Eli is a companion similar to himself, a child who is also despised and rejected. In contrast, the indifferent humans around him who bully him are the real monsters. In "Blood Invasion", vampires are not terrifying monsters, they are just a special race with human-like emotions and desires. Due to this special perspective, "Blood Invasion" lacks the terrifying atmosphere of ordinary vampire movies, and weakens the supernatural abilities of those dizzying, but magnifies and magnifies the hearts of the characters, showing the fragility of two marginal characters in society, and one Emotions that depend on each other.
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