Preface
Human beings have always avoided talking about the word "death", and even coined many implicit words to avoid bad luck.
But death that people don't want to face is an ordinary thing in the eyes of the protagonist of a movie, Ove, and even went to seek death for a time.
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, "A Man Called Ove Decided to Die", which was originally written by Swedish writer Frederick Buckman and later directed by Hannes Helm.
The novel score ranked 77th on the overall list of Douban's reading list, and the adapted movie also won the Academy Award.
This work is still a bestseller today, and when you first watch this movie, you will be misled by the name that it is a melancholy work, but in fact, it is just a healing story of an old man reconciling with himself and reconciling with life.
After watching the whole film, I believe that many people will be like the protagonist Ove, who will come out of the predicament and learn how to love.
01, a stubborn and eccentric old man
All the changes in strange behavior are inseparable from a bitter past, and Ove is no exception.
From the age of 7, the fate of his life began to go downhill, as if bad luck had been surrounding him, and his mother had severe tuberculosis and was taken away by death.
Since childhood, he has lived with his father, and he has become as silent as his father, silently reviewing his homework, and at 15 o'clock, Ove was admitted to university, but when it came to the beginning of school, life gave Ove a blow again.
My father was dying when he was being hit by a train while repairing it.
At this time, he became an orphan and became destitute, and the young Ove, who could have been happy, carried the weight of life.
A child in the prime of his youth, from this moment on, has been pushed by life to the cruel reality of life.
With the death of his parents, Ove has nothing to rely on and can only support himself.
The university has nothing to do with Ove at the moment, and now Ove has only one thought in his heart, "How to live?"
He thought of his father's job as a train mechanic, but because of his young age, he was reluctant to accept him at first, but for the sake of his deceased colleagues, he kept him and became a full-fledged train mechanic.
However, the acceptance of the leadership could not stop the exclusion of the workers, and the young Ove did not get along harmoniously in this new job, they always took Ove for fun, and stuffed the dirtiest and most tiring work to Ove to do, and Ove became more and more silent under the oppression of the workers.
When a child is unfairly affected by society, he will always find his parents as soon as possible, but a child who has lost both parents can only bear it silently by himself.
In this "dark and boundless" life, Ove lives a life that does not feel like life.
So, Ove finally ushered in the first good thing in his life, that is, he had a wife who loved him, a beautiful girl Soya.
In her company, Ou Wei opened the door of his heart, and with the arrival of his wife, life was like opening a skylight, and Ou Wei's life began to become clear and bright.
But life is such a joke, and a child was killed on a trip, and his wife lost both legs as a result.
The only thing that can comfort him is that fortunately his wife is still alive, and God seems to have grabbed the Ove family and taken Soya away.
59-year-old Ove has been experiencing the same thing for most of his life, that is, loss, loss of parents, loss of children, loss of wife.
All that was left was an "old" Saab, an old house, and a watch.
His unfortunate fate and emptiness with nowhere to speak of him turned him into an old man with an eccentric personality.
There is nothing to do, so he looks for things to do every day, and the stubborn old man has his own set of rules and adherence in his heart, and he will patrol the garbage cans in the community on time every day.
Who doesn't have garbage sorting, whose dog doesn't clean up in time, whose cat is shedding.
One who didn't do what he wanted would be furious and swearing, and everyone agreed that Ove was meddling in doing so, so they nicknamed him "Bad Neighbor from Hell" behind his back.
02. 6 suicides were unsuccessful
Soya left, and also took away the color of the old man's world, in this world, there is no one who can understand him.
So, Ove decided to die.
But the Grim Reaper brought all his relatives with him, but he didn't want to see him, and every time his plans to find death were interrupted.
He was well prepared for a perfect death, and on the roof of the house was inlaid with a hook that hung down from the very center of the house.
He stood calmly on a stool, dressed in a suit, with a decent face, and even tidied up his own makeup, spraying perfume on his side, as if he was going to a grand date.
I almost kicked off the chair under my feet and felt death.
But at this time, the neighbor who had just moved next to Ove's house, a woman named Parvana, was not a reassuring fellow.
On the first day she moved in, her husband was not skilled at driving and drove the car directly into Ove's yard, watching as the car was about to crash against his garden and against the wall of his home.
had no choice but to give up this suicide, came to the yard angrily, scolded their family, but then helped the family direct the traffic, and even saw that he was not skilled, and personally drove to help them reverse.
However, from the first day the family moved in, they had already troubled Ove and disrupted his suicide plan, and the family was destined to break into Ove's life in the future.
It's just the first time that something went wrong, Ove didn't think so, how could there be no accidents in life, and then began the second suicide.
This time no one bothered, but it still didn't work out.
It turned out that when he put his head into the rope and kicked his legs, the rope was not strong at this time, and he only heard a "bang", and the rope was directly broken into two, and the neck was loosened, and the two pairs of feet fell to the ground.
The rope broke
When I wanted to die, I just took the "shit luck" again, I really don't know what kind of luck I have, the rope that hangs me can be an inferior product, there is really no one.
However, the second suicide failed to achieve his wish.
Still hasn't given up on his plan, after the first two experiences, he doesn't want to be bothered.
The third plan was perfect, in the Saab car that had accompanied him for most of his life, he was ready to emit car exhaust fumes, and passed away quietly.
Ove who intends to commit suicide by exhaustion
The seemingly perfect plan was interrupted once again.
His old Saab car was so loud by the people outside the car door that it was almost about to fall apart, and the people outside the car door turned out to be his neighbors.
The idiot who couldn't even reverse now fell out of the window on the second floor, and Parvana was pregnant and couldn't get him to the hospital.
When Ove heard this, he had no choice but to help the woman in front of him and send her husband to the hospital.
So this time it also ended in failure, and Ove was also bitter, how could it be so difficult to even die.
Not in the house, not in the car, it's better to stay away, came to the side of the railroad tracks and was about to jump down, but before he could make a move, he saw someone falling, so he stopped what he was doing and began to help the other party.
When he made up his mind to jump, he saw a young man driving the train, and didn't want him to lose his future because of himself.
The next few suicides were also, ready to take medicine, and saw that the stray cat he adopted was being bullied by the neighbor's dog, so he was really angry and went out to protect the short, and had a big fight with the neighbor.
When he came back angrily, he saw that the original medicine bottle had been knocked over, and the medicine inside was scattered all over the place, and he did not die again.
Finally, he was ready to shoot himself with a shotgun, but he was disturbed by a knock at the door, and when he opened the door, he saw a desperate young man standing outside the door.
Six suicides, all ended because the people around them needed help.
The "evil neighbor of hell" who was once called by people has rediscovered the ability to "love" others after helping others many times.
In silence, Ove finally reconnected with others, a barbed man wrapped in bad luck, and also revealed the softness of his heart to everyone.
Since the death of his wife Sawya, few people have broken into Ove's world again, if his wife has brought color to his world, then the arrival of people around him has added a strong touch to his world.
For the first time since Soya left, their cute and troublesome neighbors had melted into the sight of this strange old man.
When her husband's foot was injured, the neighbor's family had no skilled driver, so at the behest of the neighbor, Ove began to sit in the passenger seat and teach her to drive, which was something he had never done before.
On the road, because I am a novice, I am very nervous about driving on the road, and I will make a mistake if I am not careful, but the driver behind me is an anxious person, and when he crosses the traffic light, he keeps honking his horn.
This made her, who was already nervous, suddenly unable to drive.
Seeing this, Ou Wei opened the car door directly, walked straight to the car behind, scolded the driver behind him, and said, "Haven't you ever been a beginner?"
The driver didn't dare to come out when he saw Ove's appearance, and Ove, who used to be "nosy", is now upset for his friends.
Recalling all the things that happened here, Ove has fully integrated into the community, and gradually Ove has given up the idea of dying.
But it was as if Heaven was not as good as he wanted, and when he wanted to die, he could not fulfill it, and after re-establishing contact with his neighbors, death suddenly struck again.
But this time the death was different from what Ove had imagined, not in a room that no one cared about.
On the day of his funeral, the room was full of people, all of whom were praying for the old man who had been hard-mouthed and soft-hearted.
This is where Ove's story ends.
epilogue
When Ove frequently commits suicide, there are always different people who break into his world.
Slowly, Ove's life is crowded with many people, and you will find that he is not an eccentric personality, but lacks an opportunity to reconcile with himself and find a meaning in life.
Fortunately, in Ove's last days, Ove and his neighbors were touching each other in their own ways of expressing love.
His life was not in vain.
Information source: Douban