I've read a lot of reviews about this movie, and it seems that most people think that the old man and the protagonist Owen were deceived by Abby.
Let me talk about the details I saw in the movie first. There are two scenes that I am very concerned about. Neither of these two scenes directly gave too many shots, but they were heard from Owen's point of view through the wall. In the first scene, after the old man went out to get food and came back accidentally, Abby yelled at him, and the old man just said lightly: Maybe I am tired, maybe I am just tired. But then there was another scene where Abby came back after killing someone, and because she didn't deal with the body, an old man yelled at her and scolded her as a bitch. This detail can be seen that this film is set as a girl), and Abby just silently accepted it and did not refute it.
These two scenes seem to have little information, but they reflect the relationship between the two. Obviously not a master-servant relationship, but a more subtle relationship. From my point of view, the quarrel between them is more like a tacit understanding, a sad tacit understanding.
There is a saying: If parting will come, before that, you will forget the sadness by pretending to be more indifferent.
Perhaps they followed such a tacit understanding.
Whether Abby has feelings for the old man can also be verified from another aspect.
After the old man was hospitalized, Abby came to see him, there were almost no lines, they just touched their foreheads together, as if they had said a lot, the old man stretched his neck to Abby for the love of his life Make the final sacrifice.
You must know that all Abby's blood-drinking scenes in the movie are in a state of berserk, and even go berserk when she sees blood. When Owen cuts her finger, she's berserk.
However, when she drank the blood of the old man, she was surprisingly calm, and when she drank the last mouthful of blood, she must also have mixed feelings.
The old man and Owen love Abby alone, and Abby also loves a person, but Abby treats all the people who accompany him as a person, because they are very similar people, they Bring companionship and solace in Abby's long lonely life and make her cursed fate less painful.
Abby never cheated on Owen, Abby told Owen from the beginning that he should stay away from her, told him that he was 12 years old for many years, told him that he was not human, but in the end Owen chose her. If it is said that emotions are regarded as deception, all love in the world seems to be unable to escape conspiracy theories. If there is a perfect warmth trap, what reason does Owen, who is deeply indifferent to the world, have to expose it? Abby needs Owen just as Owen needs Abby, they just fill the gaps in the hearts of both sides, there is no one who cheated the other.
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