Let the Right One In (2008)

Lina Leandersson: Eli

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• Oskar : Eli... Can you and I be together?

  Eli : What do you mean?

  Oskar : Well... Will you be my girlfriend?

  Eli : Oskar... I'm not a girl.

  Oskar : You're not?

  [pause] 

  Oskar : Can we be together?

  Eli : Can't we just be how we are?

  Oskar : I guess...

  Eli : Do you do something special if you're "together"?

  Oskar : No.

  Eli : We stay just as we were?

  Oskar : Yes.

  Eli : Then I agree...

  Oskar : What?

  Eli : We can be "together".

  Oskar : Really?

  Eli : [Whispers]  Yes.

  Oskar : Good.

• Oskar : Are you a vampire?

  Eli : I live off blood... Yes.

  Oskar : Are you... dead?

  Eli : No. Can't you tell?

  Oskar : But... Are you old?

  Eli : I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.

• Eli : I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time.

• Oskar : How old are you?

  Eli : Twelve... more or less.

  Eli : What about you?

  Oskar : Twelve years, eight months and nine days. What do you mean, "more or less"?

  Oskar : When's your birthday?

  Eli : I don't know.

  Oskar : Don't you celebrate your birthday? Your parents... they've got to know.

  Eli : [Eli looks down on the ground] 

  Oskar : Then you don't get any birthday presents, do you?

  Eli : No.

• Oskar : Who are you?

  Eli : I'm like you.

  Oskar : What do you mean?

  Eli : [accusing tone]  What are you staring at? Well?

  Eli : Are you looking at me?

  Eli : [points her finger at Oskar]  So scream! Squeal!

  Eli : Those were the first words I heard you say.

  Oskar : I don't kill people.

  Eli : No, but you'd like to. If you could... To get revenge. Right?

  Oskar : Yes.

  Eli : Oskar, I do it because I have to.

  Eli : Be me, for a while.

  [pause] 

  Eli : Please Oskar... Be me, for a little while.

• Eli : Oskar... Do you like me?

  Oskar : Yeah, a lot.

  Eli : If I wasn't a girl... would you like me anyway?

  Oskar : I suppose so.

• Eli : [standing outside the door]  You have to invite me in.

  Oskar : What happens if I don't? What happens if you walk in anyway?

  [feels the air between himself and Eli] 

  Oskar : Is there something in the way?