"A man named Ovie" healed me

A man named Ovie decided to die, and when I first saw the subject, I thought it was a mournful movie, but when I watched it for a while, I was slowly healed by Ovie.

I've been reading this book for a long time... In fact, I accidentally watched its movie with Xu Xiansen, which prompted me to want to read the original novel. This seems to be my habit all along, seeing good film and television works, I always want to chase after the original work. The movie is definitely a good movie, that Swedish town, that snowy land, those terraced houses... I especially longed for that quiet and lovely place, although I didn't like the cold, but there was still an inexplicable longing.

If you haven't seen this book or this movie, don't be seduced by this name, as if it will be a sad, death-seeking, desperate book. No, no, absolutely not. The original version of the book was translated as "A man called Ove", which is a book about Ovi's life. Let me first talk about my feelings about reading this book, when I read the book, I always unconsciously shed tears, which was also my more desperate day. Then, with each stroke of the look, my heart was carefully washed away with a comfortable sense of freshness. Until I finished reading this book, I felt that I had almost walked out, saw the warm spring blossoms, and it seemed that I touched the "willow dark flowers"... This may be "self-redemption.".

The text of the book is very delicate, it is about a strange old man named Ovie, who gets up at six o'clock every day (no alarm clock required), makes coffee in the traditional way, puts on a blue coat to look at pants, steps on clogs, goes to the neighborhood to complete his own patrol (he is not a security guard, he just thinks he wants to do it), he patrols to see if he has driven where he should not have driven, stopped where he should not have parked, whether the dog peed in front of him, and watched what the world had become... He was always ready to be disappointed in this ever-changing world. However, he is constantly trying to correct people and things that he feels are out of order and rules...

Half a year ago, Ovie's wife Sawyer died. He felt that his world was gone. (It's as desperate as it was before she came to him.) So he began a life of being alone, and when he returned home after the daily patrol, he would still live the life she was still there. Her belongings and photographs remained as usual, as if he were still under her gaze... He talked to himself, walked around, cursed and grinned, and sometimes got angry with himself. He would also regularly buy pink flowers to visit her at the cemetery, talk to her, talk to her about every moment he saw, even though there were not many words, and at the end he would always say "I miss you". I feel so sad every time. After half a year of this, he began to feel that he did not need to continue to live, and began to find ways to die... This is the timeline of "reality" or "now" in the book.

Then there is the timeline of the "past".

The "past" is divided into before and after encountering Sawyer. Before meeting Sawyer, I have to talk about Ovie's father, Ovi's father, is a silent and stoic father, after the death of his mother has been taking Ovi, Ovie is also deeply influenced by his father, whether it is personality, or various techniques, as well as personality, Ovie is like his father. With both of his parents dying at the age of sixteen, Ovie was stronger than he had imagined. There is a detail that his father paid his salary in advance, but his father died on the 16th. Ovi took the money and returned it to the manager. The manager wanted to tell him that he didn't need to pay it back, but he was as stubborn as he was, and finally left the money in order to continue in his father's position for a while. When the time came, he was also left to continue the inheritance work, he worked hard and was down-to-earth. Although taciturn, everyone silently approved of him, except, of course, for that Tom. Later, because of Tom's frame-up, he had to leave, and he was not knocked down, for him, it was just a change of place to continue working. If he hadn't met Sawyer, he would have thought he would live so endlessly. After meeting Sawyer, a lively and enthusiastic girl who loved to wear red shoes and love to read, his world "never had a peaceful day" ever since, he said, and it was then that he began to truly live.

Regarding the love between Ovie and Sawyer, I think it is not the main expression of this book, they from acquaintance to marriage, and then later, the book does not use a lot of ink to describe, as if it is just a few clips in the movie, brushing a brush will pass. How different they were, Ovi was taciturn, blunt, principled, loved mathematics and was good at all kinds of repair techniques; Sawyer, beautiful, lively, informal, kind, full of love for life, love of literature and art. Sawyer's suitors are numerous, and everyone questions why she chose Ovie. Because she knew, all good for Ovie, that he would take the train in the opposite direction, just to accompany her, that he was honest and reliable, that he would listen to everything she said to him, that in his world she was his only girl. And most importantly— "He has no doubt about justice, morality, hard work, and a world of right and wrong, not because such people will win medals or certificates, or will be patted on the shoulder and say good, and there are not many people in this world." Ovey had all sorts of insistences that seemed strange to others, but his wife, Sawyer, understood him and gave him the fairest evaluation: "They are trapped in the wrong times." Men like them only ask for a few very simple things in life. Head over a roof, quiet street, worthy of their loyal car brands and women. A job where they can make a difference, a house with things that regularly have a glitch for them to tinker with. "I was also deeply moved by this understanding.

Because of this understanding, Ovie will stubbornly fight against the white shirts in the government after Sawyer was deprived of happiness by the car accident. But no one is willing to pay for the pain. ...... But this woman is all Ovie. Ovie's persistence was not as fortunate as Andy's insistence on writing letters to the government for several years in "The Shawshank Redemption" to finally achieve his wish, and he was eventually overwhelmed by anger. Fortunately, fortunately, Sawyer survived strongly and optimistically, and Ovie finally accepted and accompanied Sawyer through that time, and it was a particularly meaningful time.

In the end, Sawyer's life was still ruthlessly taken away. How much love, that's how desperate. So Ovie began to feel that life was boring, and he wanted to die.

Just like his unexpected encounter with Sawyer, when Ovi felt desperate and began to want to die, the neighbor Parwana's family "crashed" into Ovi's life, inadvertently disrupting his suicide plan again and again. He began to lose "Ning Ri"...

Parwana is from Iran, she is a "healthy" pregnant woman, loud, rash, lively and outgoing, dare to love and dare to hate... I even think that if Sawyer had a daughter, she would be so "cute" by her. Parwana's husband is an IT man, and they have a cold seven-year-old daughter and a lively and cute three-year-old daughter. Their family's daily daily situation is varied, and this family, after all, makes Ovie's life "busy" every day. There is also a cat that often loses its hair on Irving's doorstep, and it has also become Ovi's companion...

Parwana slowly became like Ovi's daughter, and the two little girls also called Ovi "Grandpa", and Ove was always happy and accepting. There was also a cat that he had been drinking all day, and he really began to feel sorry for Ovi.

So Ovie began to feel the temperature of life. He is kind in his own way, loves the world and his surroundings, and he slowly reconciles with the world. "It's like moving into a house, and at the beginning you fall in love with everything new, revel in having it every morning, like suddenly someone rushing in the door and pointing out that it's a mistake, you shouldn't live so well, but over the years the house starts to get old, the template is in tatters, and you're going to stop loving it because it's supposed to be perfect. Then you become familiar with all the flaws and flaws. When it's cold, how to avoid the key stuck in the keyhole; which floor is easy to bend when stepped on; how to open a cupboard door and just don't let it crunch. These are the little secrets that will give you a sense of belonging. Such a description is simply tailor-made for Ovie, and such a description is from Sawyer. She really understands him.

This is really not a sad and heavy book. On the contrary, it has its own fun, just like life is like. Isn't that how life is? Vivid, bright, noisy... So, such a life made Ovie forget despair and forget death.

"Death is a strange thing. People spend their entire lives pretending it doesn't exist, even though that's one of life's greatest motivations. Some of us have had enough time to recognize death, and they are able to live harder, more persistently, more vigorously. Some people don't realize how beautiful its antonyms are until it's really approaching. Others were so bothered by it that they sat down in the waiting room early before it was announced. Ovie was the latter, and when he began to let go of the "fun" of feeling life, death began to approach him. But this is not desperate.

All his life, Ove thought no one understood his loneliness. But like Sawyer and Parwana's family, Jimmy saw through him at a glance, they loved this stubborn and somewhat paranoid old man, they accepted him from the bottom of their hearts, and they never abandoned him. Even the hairless, ugly cat depended on him...

What about a persistent, hard-working, down-to-earth person like Ovie, even if he's taciturn, rigid, or even a little weird? He will never be abandoned by this world, he will always meet a piece of light, meet goodness, meet the happiness that belongs to him in a certain corner.

Above all, this is the "energy" I get from this book. share.