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by sauvin » Thu May 18, 2017 6:26 pm
I can't speak for "plan" when it comes to Eli's having returned to rescue Oskar from the pool.
Were his training sessions on a regular schedule? We know from the movie that Eli knew about them because we saw her waiting for him (on the outside, looking in) shortly after he'd split Conny's ear, but we don't necessarily know that Eli knew he'd be at the pool that final night. If she hadn't, then she'd been watching, and it would be clear enough that she came back for him, even if just to catch a last glimpse or two. If she had known, then she dropped by, even if just to catch a last glimpse or two. Either way, all I can say with any reasonable confidence is that she did come back at least partly for him before scampering off tend to her "real" reason for coming back (to look for her forgotten or misplaced decoder ring, maybe).
This section is about the movie, because it's (theoretically) about a review about the movie. In other news, topic drift is a fact of life on WTI.
I don't remember the novel well, probably been a few years since I've last even seen it, but one scene in it was memorable because it spoke more to me about her character than anything else I remember from it. She was thinking she had cash, could jump in a taxi and go just about anywhere.
"I don't want to! Why can't I have anything!?"
(because you should be dead)
This, coupled with the responsibility Eli solidly assumed for disposing of what remained of Haakan, tells me she's still human, and still identifies as human, and doesn't lie to herself about anything that matters about herself or her existence. Together with finding it strange that she never grew up inside her head, that she's still only twelve, suggests to me that what came back for Oskar wasn't a girl with what any reasonable adult might call a "plan".
She was just a child not wanting to let go of something she found good, and was dithering with herself when the bullies showed up.
Fais tomber les barrières entre nous qui sommes tous des frères