Lina Leandersson credited as playing...
Eli
- 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: 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.