Discuss Let Me In

This goes for all three, the book, the Swedish film, and the remake (and I suppose the short story sequel "Let The Old Dreams Die" where Eli and Oskar are background characters and the focus is on a police woman investigating a series of strange killings).

Could underage children travel, rent apartments, or secure hotel rooms, without anyone investigating? Or without the renter checking on their background or insisting on adult verification and if not satisfied calling child services? In this kind of alt reality apparently no one ever checked on Abby and her once young Haken (the name in the book\original film tho he was not with her since he was a boy - he was already an adult and the pattern seemed Eli picked pedophile adults to be her "Reinfields" and so no questions about a traveling 12 year old ever got mentioned. They had been going around since the 1960's or so those old pictures suggested.)

I know kids travel alone in planes and train and so forth and it is not that unusual; but the places to stay would be an issue. Unless they scoped out abandoned properties, empty homes for sale, etc.

Nowadays with everything being about SSN's and digital records of ones existence it is hard to believe a creature like Abby would be able to continue life as it was unnoticed.

SPOILER FOR THE SEQUEL STORY:

In it Eli turns Oskar shortly after the train scene. 30+ years later he is still the same as he was. So it is now two vamp kids making their way. Two against a world they apparently continue to win in.

Thoughts?

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I was trying to figure out where Owen was going, and what happened with his mom.

@A-Dubya said:

I was trying to figure out where Owen was going, and what happened with his mom.

That also is never addressed in the book. We're left to assume the usual missing child reports (of the day - the 80's) till eventually he was declared dead. IN the sequel short story it is years later, I believe 15, and no mention of his mother is made either. But when we do see the kids neither has aged, so she turned him. Which brings up the initial question of how they are able to move around as adolescents - rent apartments, travel (not that unusual for kids to travel solo so that may not be too big an issue), etc. Maybe they live in homes not yet bought? Empty mobile homes?

As for where they were going... Eli\Abby would have made that decision I assume. It is never addressed. Probably did not matter so long as it was far enough away from the scene of the last murders.

By today both would have to seriously upgrade how they moved about. Or get another adult to be their "Reinfield" and act as parent\guardian.

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