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Mark Fisher didn’t open his most famous book with a discussion of Let the Right One In.
Going to save all my tearful, gnashing defenses of Children of Men for the final four when it's going to need it.
Children of Men is masterful filmmaking, with details so precise that I think, “Yes, this is exactly what it would be like.” But what Children accomplishes with so much, Let the Right One In accomplishes with so little. Ultimately Children engages my mind but Let leaves my heart bleeding on the snow as the train leaves the station. Children of Men will probably win decisively but I have to vote for Let the Right One In.
Children of Men is not only my favourite film of the aughts, it's the best dystopian film we've got at this point (Fury Road being a close second). In a world of Orwell fanatics I'm an apologist for what I think 1984 and other pillars of the genre are lacking: the emotional depth of this deeply horrifying, deeply moving portrait of the world we seem to be moving toward. I can't speak to it, but I know many of us have felt it.
I love horror, but I look forward to the opportunities I'll have to make up for my vote against Let The Right One In in next year's madness (here's looking at you, The Witch/Hereditary/GreenRoom/Suspiria).
Like many other people here, I was cruising right along until I got to this one. I have to pull out a tie-breaker: final scenes. Even in the final scenes, it's a photo finish. Oskar and Elie's train to a doomed future is just as effective and affecting as the rowboat creche. So, the overtime tiebreaker is the next-to-last scene. I still cannot get that swimming pool sequence out of my head. I'm letting the right one advance to next round.
Let the Right One In is obviously the correct Choice here. I did come late to the children of men (just watched the first time a couple of weeks ago). It was good but i love let the right one in. Horror is always a hard sell though
It's a sign of a true classic that Children Of Men has continued to grow in stature with each passing year. Alfonso Cuaron's greatest film and one that, disconcertingly, looks increasingly prescient as we sleepwalk towards its 2027 setting.
I just rewatched Children of Men for this poll. Brilliant. Perfectly pitched. Amazing film making. Doesn't put a foot wrong. Best film of the 2000s?
This is easily the hardest matchup in the entire first one, the one that induces the most Madness, in every flavor of that term. Let the Right One In is such a great atmospheric film, a genre film that transcends the stakes boundaries we usually put on such movies to wrestle with some huge issues (you know love and death and ethics and survival, nbd). I fell in love with it immediately. Children of Men is just as clearly invested in profound ethical questions and I have a particular love for the film as someone who actually read the novel it's based on (a stark departure from PD James' usual murder mystery!). Cuaron's film gets the edge here for two reasons: it is much more resolutely invested in real life stakes and not just by analogy (I am still moved and infuriated by the imagery at the checkpoint that invokes the Abu Ghraib photos) and it is a film that offers more hope for the future of humanity than Let the Right One In. You know, NBD.
I'm not on the "Children of Men as masterpiece" bandwagon, but I'm hoping it handily beats the weakest film in this entire tournament. Someone can agree with me on this, right?
I was breezing through these polls, going "oh obviously this one's better" and "oh I haven't seen one of these yet" and then came to a full stop on this one.
It's not exactly that I really love either one. They are both great of course, but not "the best". But they are equally great! What the hell.
What the hell, guys?
Two of my favorite films in the first round?
Either of these could–nay should–go deep.
Pouring out some blood now cuz
I know Cuaron will move on.
Swedes just never catch a break.
SIGH.
I already voted against Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, so that’s how I’m rationalizing voting against LET THE RIGHT ONE IN here. Can’t vote against Cuarón twice. Not today.
OUCH.
I may have to wander into a snowy wood with a filthy plastic container to get over this one.
This isn't fair - Let the Right One In is maybe a Final Four movie for me, at least Elight Eight. But Children of Men maybe the best in the tournament. I call foul on seeding for this one. Just because not as many people have seen this amazing Swedish film (thank you Adam and Matty Ballgame for the introducing me to this on episode 236, 11 years ago {man we're getting old boys}) doesn't mean it deserves to get railroaded by a true contender, My vote goes to Let the Right One In just on principle.
There are many of you out there that can more eloquently explain how amazing Children of Men is, so I'll leave that to better minds and just point out that only one of these films has Clive Owen hitting a guy in the face with a car battery.
CoM is the most likely candidate to bust up a No Country vs There Will Be Blood championship matchup. I’d personally love to see that happen.