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

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

They're not two girls?

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Nooooo!

Actually Eli is a boy - a castrated one. You have to see this film, I've seen it twice, it is brilliant! I guarantee you will love it.

[noveltynovelist.livejournal.com]

I still want to see that movie anyway, not just because it's Swedish and about vampires, but because I was promised violence. Bloody, bloody violence.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

According to the book this based on, the one on the right is a boy. In the film, this is never stated directly, but the one on the right explains several times to the other that "I am not a girl."

[ladysorka]

Eli actually is a boy.

He/She (I'm honestly not sure on pronoun) has just been castrated. There's a brief scene were we see the results of this as Oskar looks through a door and watches Eli dress. Eli is played by a female actress, though.

So. Yes.

[vissy.livejournal.com]

It actually still seemed quite slashy to me, in that unconventional relationship-type way.

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have to see it! It's a great movie, dark and twisted and very, very slashy. I was confused about Eli's gender till the end and let me tell you I was disappointed, too, thinking he was a girl. But then I found out that in the book (which I haven't read) Eli is a boy and I was happy. *g*

[breakism.livejournal.com]

LOL, the actress who plays that character is a girl, but the character is a boy who dresses like a girl, because he was castrated.

And the movie is great.

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

Eli, in the film, is played by a girl, but they dubbed the actress's voice over with a boy's to make her sound more ambiguous.

The character is definitely meant to be a castrated boy, which was a major plot in the original Swedish novel but is hinted at during the movie, but there's only so much they could get to in a film adaptation.

[christwise.livejournal.com]

I was indifferent to this movie until I read this and all the comments. MUST. RENT.

[saturn92103.livejournal.com]

It's a fantastic film!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

This is an *excellent* film. You. Must. See. It.

(Interestingly enough I see parallels between this and Coraline... in a Big Picture sort of way.)

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

hahahah -- took me a moment to get it. I was wondering why you wouldn't want to see underage lesbian hotness on film...

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Title, please? Thanks.

[pumpkin-pantry.livejournal.com]

*de-lurks* lmao I honestly didn't know the whole 'twist' until I read the comments in your lj, and for some reason it makes the movie much less creepy. At first, I wanted to see the movie cuz I thought it was two girls and was disappointed when I watched it...but now this makes me want to watch it again! Oscar is the cutest thing ever, you should watch it just to see him swim/trying to be manly.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

And I forgot - there *is* a bona fide gay couple in there, but it's waaay subtle.

[amalthia]

this was actually a rather good movie. :)

[coell.livejournal.com]

AMAZING MOVIE! I'd use my favorite icon from it, but I don't want to spoil anything. ^_^

[jonna594.livejournal.com]

Actually, she is a he. You probably know it's a Swedish movie, and since I'm Swedish I have already seen the movie plus read the book. They are both awesome, I really recommend them both. They do describe Eli as a girl, because Oskar thinks Eli is one, but and this is a bit spolerish, Eli originally was a boy. Hope this will make you watch it :)

[geneticallydead.livejournal.com]

Eli's gender is very definitely questionable. I think it's supposed to be a bit of a twist, thus the statement that Eli is a girl.

It's an astonishing, amazing film. See it. Drop everything to see it.

[lurkslikefox.livejournal.com]

The thing I like most about that film is that it parallels so neatly with Twilight. It's essentially the same story, only if the sparkly veneer of repressed mormon housewife/early teenager sexuality is scraped of. This is how creepy and squicky Twilight should be.

*SPOILERS*

It's got the protaganist being romanced by a much much older person who stalks them, lets themselves into their bedroom at night, does the whole 'Be friends with me... but keep away from me... but love me... but you're not safe with me...' thing and draws thr protaganist away from his family. We've also got a selfish (possibly to the point of psychosis) main character who can't relate to those around him/her and is 'dazzled' by the interest shown in them by this older person.

I give you a much better and Swedish version of Twilight (though it may have been written first).

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

That is kinda sexist, yo.

[minavox.livejournal.com]

This movie is really brilliant. A fresh and interesting take on the whole Vampire topic - and not in the Twilight/i>-way of turning it into bad soap.
Worth a watch regardless of the gender question, imo - I didn't get it until relatively late into the movie.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

The reason you know it's too boys is that you've pictured the scene a million times. It's Lucius and Snape. As lad. There's even snow

[loony-lucifer.livejournal.com]

I saw this post this morning. Went and watched the movie. It was really good. Thank you. Wow.