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| "Would you let me in?" |
And that's what makes this movie damn good. Their friendship begins with their shared similarity: being a loner. Eli refuses to be friend with Oskar at first, knowing the risk of being around her, but then she starts to see Oskar in deeper sense. Oskar seems to be friendly and non-judgemental, but his main weakness is bullies. He is the main target of the bullies at his school, and is too afraid to fight back. Eli encourages Oskar to hit the bullies back, and Oskar tries to strengthen his mental and physical appearance by swimming and weight-lifting. Despite his weakness towards bullies, Oskar puts interest to criminal news and even forensics (I bet his favorite TV show is all kind of CSI!). He collects murder or any criminal articles from the local newspaper. And yeah, as you can guess, the criminal records grow since Eli moves next door to Oskar.
Eli lives with an old man whom people believe to be her 'father'. He is a real loner, when someone asks him to join his table with his friends at a restaurant, he refuses without saying 'Thank You'. I can tell that he's not Eli's real father, because Eli says she's been twelve for a "very long time", but he seems to really love Eli for he is willing to kill people, take their blood, and feed them to Eli (this is actually explained in the English version of the movie, Let Me In). Unfortunately he fails to bring Eli her 'dinner' twice, and at his second attempt he decides to pour his face with accumulator water so the police won't recognize his face. Eli visits him at the hospital, in a very hungry condition, and her 'father' finally gives himself up to her. She drinks his blood and he falls from the seventh floor. This is no love, this is freaky!
As Oskar gets closer to Eli, he knows what kind of 'person' she is. Yes, he finds out that she's a vampire, but instead of keeping him away from her or being afraid, he puts more interest on her. One night, Eli visits Oskar when his mother is away, and Oskar teases her without inviting her in. Eli steps into Oskar's apartment without invitation, and the blood starts to shed from all of her body. Oskar starts to panic and finally tell her the invitation (like I told you before, vampire is quite polite when it comes to entering someone's house—but apparently that Edward Cullen guy is not, since he loves to enter Bella's room by himself haha).
Things are getting worse when Eli kills a local citizen inside her apartment, and she decides to leave the town. Oskar is a bit 'devastated' (but not as annoying as Bella Swan in New Moon who looks like a stupid crazy girl for being left by her boyfriend forgetting the facts that she has many people who care for her—OK I need to stop comparing this cool movie to that sucky movie), but he realizes that he has to move on.
One day the bullies pull a prank for him by asking him to come to school for swimming practice, but it turns out to be a 'bully showdown' instead. The big bully challenges Oskar to stay under water for 3 minutes. If he succeed then the bully will only give him a small nick with his knife, but if he failed one of his eyes will be poked out (I think this kid watched too many Saw or Hostel movies). After the bully holds Oskar under water with his hand, a few minutes later, you will see this unbelievably creepy scene, although it isn't displayed.
OK, spoiler alert: suddenly there's a head falls into the water. And a pair of shaking legs like when someone is tortured. And then... The bully's hand that grips Oskar's hair is truncated and falls down. Another hand pulls Oskar up and saves him. Yes, vampire Eli is back. As the scene is 'zoomed out', you can see the bullies are all lied down without hands, legs, or head, and yeah, blood is everywhere.
You may guess the ending, Eli keeps Oskar to her forever. And ever. Without happily ever after, because in my logical sense, Eli will treat Oskar like the way she did to her 'father'. I bet Oskar will be the person who love her most but also her 'personal assistant' to kill people and help her feed. And this is the creepy idea I'm talking about earlier.
But the movie itself, I really enjoy it! Even though it's too silent because there's no scoring or music background, and the dialogue is just a few. But as a horror and vampire movie, it definitely nails the audience. Next thing I'm going to do is read the novel (yeah I already got it YAY!) and watch the English version.
