Chapter 44 cold, warm, clean

After the Swedish film "Let Them In" appeared in 2008, it won many awards, such as the Tribeca Film Festival (a film award aimed at affirming and commending emerging filmmakers with outstanding performances) for best feature film and five Swedish Film Academy Awards nominate. Matt Rivers, director of The Cloverfield Files, is also working on a remake of the film. Swedish film is the leader of Scandinavian film. As the earliest country in Northern Europe to shoot films, Sweden's Zaman and Greta Garbo continue to add weight to Swedish films.However, I prefer to look at Nordic cinema as a whole. Nordic cinema always seems to be a commentary on Danner's "Philosophy of Art", that is, artists' works of art should always reflect the geography of the place where they were cultivated. Temperament and national character.Nordic movies have a temperament that will never be mistaken. The creators are always willing to point the camera at the snow and the dark night, and they are best at expressing loneliness and pain with extremely sharp brushwork. The overall temperament is cold, restrained, and forbearing. , and, probably because of the cold, there is a subtle feeling for things that shelter and warm people. Houses, doors, lights, stoves, glass windows, cotton clothes, water, in Nordic movies, always give people a strange warmth .

"Let the stranger enter" presents this Nordic film temperament.The film is based on the 2004 best-selling book of the same name by Swedish novelist Johan Lindkvist (who also co-wrote the screenplay).The friendship between a pair of twelve-year-old boys, one is the boy Oscar, who is always bullied in school and can only vent his hatred in a hypothetical form, and the other is the boy Ai Li (gender ambiguous) who lives next door Living with an old man of unknown origin, Allie kept encouraging Oscar to be brave and saved him at the most critical moment.The most frightening thing about this story is that Allie is a vampire who has survived for three hundred years. "I have been twelve years old," Allie explained his origin.

The story of "Let No One Enter" is simple, but its style is mixed. It looks like a vampire story, but it has a realistic style, which completely subverts the conventions of previous vampire movies.Vampire novels and movies have always been characterized by gorgeousness, lewdness, and extravagance. The style should be Gothic, and the atmosphere should be camp. Anne Rice’s vampire series (etc.) A "poor vampire" (as netizens joked), living in a simple, unfurnished house, always falling into loneliness and helplessness.Therefore, "Let No One Enter" just uses the type of vampire story to reflect those unavoidable problems in life, and "sucking blood" can be replaced by some incurable disease, or a complex that cannot be eliminated in life, and some kind of follow-up Elegy of fate not to go.It and 2008's "The Eternal Moment of Maria Larsson" (Sweden), "Fire and Citroen" (Denmark), "Rest in Peace!"Jamil" (Denmark), "The Man Who Loved Inge" (Norway), "The House of the Black Butterfly" (Finland) and so on constitute a new picture of Nordic movies. Of course, this picture is cold and cold as usual. Warm and clean ("clean" is not enough to describe their inner crystal clear).

But my favorite is still "Let the Stranger in". In the film, there are several scenes of children pressing their handprints on the glass windows in winter nights. When they were sleeping on the bed, I heard the wind whistling outside the window. , All of this reminds me of the poem "Who Passed by the Window in My Childhood" by the Swedish poet Pal Fabian Lagerkvist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature: "Who passed by the window in my childhood?" Passing by the window / Breathing on the glass / In my childhood, in the deep / Starless night, who walked by. / He made a mark on the window with his finger, / In the wet On the glass, / With his soft fingers, / .