Awake not Woke!

Great vampire story

This is my favorite vampire movie. It's subtitled and there are some cultural differences. It's slow moving with longer scene times than typical American cinema. There's zero wokeness, even though it's Swedish. There's no jump-scare or gross-out scenes. It's just a good, well-told story.

I have not read the original book this is based on, I have seen the original Swedish movie though it has been so long I don't remember it that much. Given the originals are a Swedish Scandinavian story they sure went out of their way to DEI up the casting. Single mom and boy that live next door are now black and the vampire character is now of Spanish/Pilipino mixed race and her guardian from the originals is now her father played by a Mexican actor. The aforementioned black mom is a detective with an Asian partner. There is an insane amount of DEI and a ridiculous lack of white people in general with most of those being female, except the white male junkie of course. The scene of the kid in the school cafeteria shows almost no white kids. The gift shop owner appears to be a gay Asian. A flashback scene shows the mom played by a Brazilin actress so not sure where the half Pilipino kid comes from but whatever. The acting is ok generally except the child actor that plays Eli is pretty poor. There is a very bad CG shot in the first episode of her running and climbing a tree. Why make that CG at all? This feels like another one of these adaptations where they try to stretch out a single book into an ongoing series by adding a bunch of nonsense not in the original and just changing everything so much it barely resembles the original. One episode was enough for me.

One of the best dramatic movies of the 21st century so far

One of the best biographical films I've seen in a long time. It's totally deserving of any award where all the actors pat each other on the back, but it probably won't even get nominated because it’s about the guy who straight-up called some actors "Niggers". Actors who, obviously are part of the woke mafia and got all butt-hurt like idiots. Yeah, this is the movie, and this is the dude who did that. An excellent person, an excellent biographical story. 100% RECOMMENDED. No woke stuff. P.S.: I hope it wins a ton of awards, it totally deserves them.

The acting is pretty bad. The lead is supposed to be 15 and in highschool while the actor is clearly in her 20's. All of these highschool cool 'kids' look like they are in their 20's actually. This has all the problems the original did and the director hasn't improved at all for this one. Some jarring editing and scene transitions. The Jester just isn't scary and comes off as corny more than creepy. The kills are pretty lame with very little blood and gore. The small amount of gore there is looks comical (the double eye scene in particular looks really bad). A lot of black DEI overrepresentation including the female black police officer. All the black characters are 'good'. There is completely out of nowhere scene where a random white male attempts to sexually assault the '15' year old. This is pretty bad overall and not recommended.