(Quoted from the original text in quotation marks) The first time I saw a Swedish movie, I met a stubborn and lovely old grandpa. The film is based on the novel of the same name, "A Man Named Ove Decided to Die". Whether it is a novel or a movie, it is not wonderful enough to make people make a case, but it is warm enough to make people cry. Ove is a stubborn old man. He believes that any rules need to be followed: if you say that you are not allowed to drive into the community, you are not allowed. If you say that you should park in the parking spaces on the four sides, you should park like this. If you say that garbage should be sorted, it should be sorted properly. Afraid that others would lose the car, every time someone took a ride, he covered the seat with newspaper. Wouldn't want to waste a penny, not turning on the heat even in winter. Ove curses and yells when he encounters unruly people. "He's a black-and-white man. She's color, all his colors." She was Sonia, his wife. The two meet on the train.
Ove's mother died young, and he and his father depended on each other for life. Ove's father was a reserved, silent, and extremely kind man. My father always worked silently, without taking credit or saying a word. Ove inherited this perfectly from his father. "No one is watching, but no one needs to see it either. Good work is enough, my father always said that, and Ove took it to heart." Later, his father died after the incident, leaving Ove alone. Just like when his father was around, Ove was always sitting in his father's car, eating potato sausages. Day after day passed. "He was never lonely, but he was never alone." Later, the house next door caught fire. Everyone was watching, and no one went in to save the people in the house, except Ove. To save lives, Ove's house was burned to the ground. He was homeless and had to sleep on the train. So Ove meets Sonia. "She believes in destiny. Every road you take in life will eventually 'lead you to your destiny'." At the time of the ticket check, Ove had no tickets and no money. Kind Sonia helps Ove pay for the ticket. Ove rode the train every day for the next month, until another day, when he ran into Sonia again and gave her the money back for the ticket. Sonia said it would be better to use the money to invite her to dinner. The two knew each other and fell in love.
"She likes to wrap her index finger in the palm of her hand and hide it in the crevice there. When she does, he feels that nothing is impossible in this world. Of all the things he will miss the most, this is the one that makes him the most. I'm sorry." Sonia was pregnant. Because of a car accident, Sonia lost her unborn child and her fertility. Still smiling, she taught children at school who were not hers but were meant to be with her. The school did not have a barrier-free passage for the disabled, so Ove built one for Sonia himself. "Everyone has to know what he's fighting for, they say. She fights for all that is good, for the child she never had, and Ove fights for her. Because, in this world, she's the only one worthy of him. Fight." Ove was out of this world. Not his fault, nor the world's fault. Ove and Sonya are enough. Later, Sonia got cancer. She is dead. "When Sonya left Ove, he didn't die with him. He just wasn't alive anymore."
So, Ove also decided to die. "Life has to be the way it is now. That's all Ove feels." As he tried to hang himself, a neighbor's trailer smashed his mailbox. Ove had to back up for them. When he hangs up again, the rope snaps. He was going to smoke himself to death with car exhaust, and it fell off when a neighbor was repairing a second-floor window. Ove had to help get the neighbor's wife and child to the hospital. He planned to kill himself with a shotgun, and even sealed the living room with plastic sheets so as not to dirty the house, and even turned on the radio so that the cat upstairs would not be frightened by the sound of gunfire. The arrival of two young men disrupted his plans again. A young man was kicked out of the house after he confessed his sexuality to his father. Ove had to take him in. Slowly, more and more people surrounded Ove, and he became more and more unable to leave this world. "If anyone asked, he'd say he didn't have a life before her. And he hasn't since." He's had a life since a neighbor smashed his mailbox.
In the end, Ove died. Died of a heart attack on a snowy day. A movie without a climax. Daily bland and warm healing minor. It's hard not to be moved when Ove's caustic hidden story unfolds before the audience's eyes. Everyone's life is not easy, but life is too busy. We can't take care of ourselves, we can't protect ourselves. So, most of the time we are unwilling or too lazy to take the time to understand his or her story. You can get to know a person without taking the time, but you must not blame someone at will. The world is already so cruel, let us bring a touch of warmth to others. "There's a moment in everyone's life that decides who they're going to be. You don't know the story, you don't know the person."
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