The cold wind is bleak, and Ling Dong has arrived.
Winter is a very depressing season. The cold seems to be accompanied by bad memories and thoughts.
"A Man Called Ove Decided to Die"
How desperate do people have to be to seek death over and over again?
Ove is a weird old man.
He stuck to his code for ten years and demanded it from the entire community, and he broke with his old friend for it.
Every day, he patrols his territory, checking that the car is parked accurately in the square lines of the parking space, picking up cigarette butts and throwing them in the sorted garbage, complaining about the unmowed lawns of others. , cursing the stray cat on the street and the Chihuahua in the neighbor's arms, choking on others talking about his deceased wife.
Mean, nasty and awkward old stuff.
But the film also shows us another side of Ove.
Ove is an ill-fated man. He lost his mother when he was young and lived with his father. His father was a railroad worker, and he also grew up beside the railroad tracks. He was finally admitted to the foreman of the railway, and his father was so happy that he ran to tell him, but was run over by the train he was most familiar with.
Ove begins a lonely life, guarding a dilapidated wooden house by himself. The developer wanted to drive him away, set the community on fire, and he rescued others from the fire, only to watch his house burn.
He met the man who saved him, and his life really began.
Yet life is always hostile to Ove, who loses his wife's legs and her unborn child in a car accident on a road trip. The wife is not discouraged, even dragging her paralyzed legs, she has to fight for a better life for herself.
But now, the only color in his life, has also been robbed of his life by cancer.
A sudden goodbye is always heartbreaking. No one taught Owen how to deal with these life and death separations. The people he loved disappeared in front of him, and he became more and more introverted - he chose to hide all his soft emotions behind him, and armed himself with meanness and vicious tongues.
What's the point of living in a world that's riddled with holes? So he decided to kill himself with a rope.
If I were Ove, I certainly wouldn't know what to do with the world.
I remember reading a statistic on the cancer cure rate before. The cancer cure rate of the elderly in rural areas is extremely high. This seems strange at first, but it becomes normal after thinking about it - because a large part of the elderly in rural areas suffer from illness. Before their lives, they had already chosen to cut themselves off so as not to hold back their families.
After an elderly man living alone in South Korea committed suicide, he left a letter with 100,000 won to the staff who came to clean up the body. The letter on the envelope was "Thank you. Come to a bowl of soup and rice, don't mind."
It seems that no matter where they are, the plight of the elderly is very similar.
Aging is accelerating, and the situation of the elderly is becoming more and more vulnerable. In the impression of many people, the image of the elderly is mostly negative. They are lonely, helpless, depressed, miserable, and absolutely socially weak. These words actually make us classify the elderly as "others" and prepare to stay away from them.
This is age discrimination.
Obviously, at least in China, many elderly people are also coerced by this so-called "consensus", so that the daily life of the elderly is completely confined to a small place, doing nothing day after day.
What are they waiting for? It seems that they have worked hard for most of their lives in exchange for being discriminated against in the second half of their lives and finally having a grand funeral.
Everyone is an island, and friends are like neighbors that we can see with lighthouses beside us. Watching the people around you leave one by one is tantamount to watching the lights around you go out one by one, and finally you are alone in endless darkness.
Fortunately, Ove has a new neighbor who accidentally broke into his life, and in a clumsy way, with Ove, he is away from the darkness and loneliness.
But what about other old people?
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