Owen (Let Me In)

Owen is the main protagonist from the movie Let Me In.
He is portrayed by , who also portrayed Norman Babcock in ParaNorman, Alexander in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Willy in the English version of Maya the Bee Movie, and Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix.
==Biography==
Owen is a 12 year old boy who lives with his alcoholic mother in a shabby apartment complex in Los Alamos. His life is quite unhappy because while his parents neglect him, he is bullied and even injured several times in school without any of the teachers helping him. In addition, he has no friends and is lonely.
One evening a young girl and her supposed father move into the apartment next door. In fact, it's Abby and her caretaker Thomas. Abby is a vampire, and Thomas kills humans on her behalf to give her their blood. Shortly afterwards, Abby and Owen meet in the playground in front of the apartment complex. At first they don't get along very well, but after they meet a few more times they gradually become friends.
At school, however, Owen continues to be bullied by his three tormentors. They even go so far as to injure his face without any of the teachers or Owen's mother noticing.
Owen and Abby even go on a date together after a while. And gradually they fall in love, yet Abby is reluctant to tell Owen about who she really is. These meetings make Owen and Abby happier and happier. When Owen tells Abby how bad his classmates are to him, she tells him to fight. Despondent at first, Owen asks what to do if they are still stronger. And Abby promises to come to his aid. He gives her a Morse code so that they can communicate by knocking on the respective wall. 
Not long afterwards, the three classmates threaten him again on a school trip. This time, however, Owen has become more courageous and hits one of them with an iron bar. He's almost thrown out of school because of it, but he's still happy that he finally struggled. He then asks his PE teacher to train him to get stronger. When he tells the next night Abby, that he has finally resisted, he gets his first kiss from her.
A short time later, Abby's caretaker Thomas is killed and Abby flies to Owen's room and asks him to be invited. She cuddles up in bed with him naked and Owen asks her if she would like to be his girlfriend. Abby refuses at first, which makes Owen sad, but when Owen assures that nothing has to change between them, she agrees to his delight. When Owen wakes up the next day, he finds a romantic poem by her.
At their next meeting, Owen shows Abby a secret basement room where he has a special surprise for her. He cuts his thumb with a knife and wants to offer her a blood pact. But Abby sinks to her knees and licks up his blood, and then shows her true vampire face. She struggles to control herself so as not to attack Owen, and flees the room. Outside she attacks a woman who is walking her dog.
Owen is shocked to learn that Abby is a vampire. The next day he calls his father and tearfully asks for comfort, but is rejected by him stubbornly. He then visits Abby in her apartment and confronts her. He sees photos of Abby and her caretaker Thomas when he was a child. Annoyed, Owen believes Abby is just using him and leaves the apartment angrily.
Abby comes to him later and asks him again to invite her to his apartment, which Owen refuses this time. When she enters and suddenly starts bleeding all over her body, Owen invites her over and hugs her desperately. His anger and fear are gone because he really cares about her. Abby takes a shower at his place and Owen gives her new clothes, but has to leave the apartment when Owen's mother enters. Shortly afterwards, Owen goes to Abby's apartment and stays with her for the night. He now knows that even though she is a vampire, she is the only one who really cares about him and truly loves him.
The next day a police officer broke into the apartment who was able to trace the series of murders of Thomas and Abby back to this address. Abby kills the policeman to Owen's horror. Then she kisses him again and tells him that she has to leave now. Owen sees her getting into a taxi that evening and breaks down crying the next morning.
In the evening of the day he goes back to the gym and swims there. But the bullies have decided to take revenge with the help of the injured bully's older, criminally insane brother. The four of them attack him and try to drown or maim him. At this moment Abby jumps through the window and attacks the bullies, which she kills one after the other in the most brutal way. When Owen sees that Abby has returned to him and protected him as promised, he smiles.
Eventually they both leave Los Alamos. Owen is on a train in broad daylight and there is a large suitcase next to him. After the conductor has checked him, Abby, which is in the suitcase, knocks in Morse code that she loves Owen, which Owen replies the same.
==Trivia==
*Owen and Abby are based on a novel in which the two protagonists are Oskar and Eli. Technically, however, Owen and Abby are different characters, and not identical to those in the book.
*The film ends ambiguously about whether Owen will be Abby's new caretaker, or whether she will turn him into a vampire shortly afterwards. For both options there is foreshadowing several times during the film, so that the viewer can decide what they think is more likely or what they'd prefer.
*Owen is much gentler and more innocent than his novel counterpart, but still retains some of the darker aspects of Oskar. In addition, Oskar was quite snide with Eli during the book, while Owen shows his sweet side with Abby almost from the start.
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