The protagonist of Let the right one in (the novel) is a fat teenage boy who was bullied. The protagonist of Let the right one in (the film) is a skinny teenage boy who was bullied.
This form of misrepresentation is similar to how members of the LGBTQ, Raced, Gendered, and Sexual communities have been denied equal opportunity in representation.
Fat people are not allowed to be heroes. Fat people are only allowed one thing, which is to lose weight, made into the symbolic clown, or depicted as the victim of bullying.
This form of misrepresentation is entirely unacceptable
In the context of Let the right one in, it is also highly ironic because the entire story was an allusion to the Lord of the flies's key character, 'piggy'. In Lord of the flies, piggy was the unsung hero whose death mark the final fall of mankind into its own base instincts. However, in Let the right one in, Oskar (the 'piggy') brought out the humanity in the beastly female vampire; hence, the irony is that in censoring the fat protagonist out of the story, the director have once again crucified the fat protagonist and fell into the base need for discriminatory aesthetics by allowing someone more 'beautiful' to become the protagonist.
The same reason that Piggy in Lord of the Flies was denied an equal voice because of how he looked, even though he was clearly the only person who understood how a fair government would have worked amongst the lost children.
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