Let Me In

[Kristian]

the film did show explicitly that El was once a boy.

I know the very brief shot you mean but I didn't draw that conclusion. It was when Eli said "I'm not a girl" in the original which made the audience wonder and I thought 'no, she's a vampire'. But I feel sure Abby=Girl=Chloe in the new version.

[Hit-Girlx]

lol,exactly,why would Chloe be a boy!

[frogk04]

I think we all know that Chloe can't be a boy. It's just that in the original film Eli was thought to be a boy or was a boy or ahhhhhh whatever. Now imma confuse. All I know is that Chloe in Let me in is a girl and that's that's lol

[Hit-Girlx]

ok^

[Wolfchild]

I think we all know that Chloe can't be a boy. It's just that in the original film Eli was thought to be a boy or was a boy or ahhhhhh whatever. Now imma confuse. All I know is that Chloe in Let me in is a girl and that's that's lol

I think you are probably right - although I will reserve judgment until I see that flashback scene that is reputed to be in the script.

[hopkin]

lol,exactly,why would Chloe be a boy!

**** BIG SPOILER ****

A big part of the book is discovering that Eli isn't actually a girl. The reason she was living as a girl, and could live as either boy or girl, explains her origin as a vampire and the relationship between her and her carer. I don't want to give too much away in case it ruins to the book or the film for someone.

I've read that this aspect has been left out of the American film. Not surprising as it's horrifying and deeply perverse. Still, that was one of the things that made the book so shocking and so good.

[Hit-Girlx]

Creepayy!

[Wolfchild]

it's horrifying and deeply perverse. Still, that was one of the things that made the book so shocking and so good.

QFT.

In an interview that Matt Reeves gave at SXSW that recently surfaced, he was asked obliquely about this topic and he had this to say:

Well, you know the thing about it is… I don’t want to give anything away just yet. You will see when you see the movie, but I have tried to remain as true to the story as possible, but you guys will tell me!

When asked about what rating the film might get in the US, he went on to say

I said “If that turns out to be the case, I think it just means that there’s a different cultural response to it, because in the United States, I cannot imagine the film as we have done it getting anything other than an R.” I just can’t imagine it. Now if it does, I’ll be surprised. Let’s put it this way, there was no attempt to try and soften it to make PG-13.

I'm certain that he could not even hint at Abby having been a boy and get anything less than an R rating. So maybe this question is still open. Could he and Chloe make it believable that Abby could have been a boy? I am dubious, but such things have been pulled off before.

[Hit-Girlx]

They should make it rated R.

[Nuffins]

What does that mean, that film is R-rated? We don't have such rating here.