Know why I never post on fandomsecrets? I like sharing my shame.

[amanuensis1]

From the trailer, I wanted rather badly to see this film:



...and then I learned the one on the right is not a boy. Now I'm no longer interested.

Migod, could I get any more shallow.

Comments

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But they say he's a girl in all the summaries??

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

But if I were writing those summaries I would be all vague about it! "the lovely Eli" "the mysterious neighbor Eli" Not "a beautiful but peculiar girl, Eli"!

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Some of the summaries refer to "vampire child" and it may have gone right over some reviewers heads - it's pretty subtle in the movie, and they cut some of the flashbacks (for better story adaptation reasons) that would have made it more explicit.

[lurkslikefox.livejournal.com]

I totally missed that! Durrrrr...

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

They are avoiding spoilers, he appears as a girl (and is played by a girl). Eli tells Oskar "I'm not a girl" and you could take that as "I'm a vampire" but it definitely isn't and there's also a shot of Eli naked where you can see the scars. In the book we're told a lot more of Eli's backstory,and the old man's, and he was a boy. I bought the book because I liked the movie so much and wanted to see where it came from, and I don't even like vampires (ignore all the buffy icons, doesn't count). The book was good (in translation can make it hard to tell) so I enjoyed it despite it not being my genre. But the movie transcended that, it is brilliant and YOU MUST SEE IT!