When I first saw Mr. May, I thought he was very similar to Ove, both of whom were very old-fashioned and conscientious, and treated their work meticulously. Although he was just an ordinary social service worker, his duty was to find relatives and properly bury those who died alone. They even strongly persuade those who are unwilling to attend the funeral of their relatives to come, and do not charge the burial fee, just hope that this person can get the attention of their relatives at the last minute.
Compared with work, Mr. Mei's life is extremely simple, with canned food and bread almost every day, just like the theme of Silent Life, all the goals of Mr. Mei's life seem to be to help these lonely dead people, find Relatives, even if they can't find someone they know, do what they can to help these people outline their lives, write a eulogy, have a funeral, and then a period of life returns to silence.
This silence is the silence of his respect for the dead as a servant.
This kind of silence is also the silence of an ordinary person, or the silent silence of a bottom-level person.
This kind of silence is also a contrast under the rush of everyone in our modern life, and it is worth thinking about by each of us.
Whenever I see Mr. Mei carrying a briefcase alone, he has to look left and right when walking across the road regardless of whether there is a car or not, and then move on, the lonely and silent figure has walked through one life after another of lonely deaths, and it seems that it will be finished. own life.
Until he received a call, the deceased lived in the same building as him, in the U-shaped corridor, the door of the deceased was facing his own door, but he did not know the deceased, he collected the deceased's belongings as usual , to find relatives for the deceased, and strive to outline the life of the deceased.
But at this moment, he was fired by the company, and he fought hard to continue to complete this last case. When he opened his curtains and looked at the closed doors and windows opposite, I knew it was not only because this was the last case in his twenty-two years of work, but also because of this case he began to think about the meaning of life. In the complex and tortuous life of the deceased, he learned a different life and saw another possibility in life, and he also began to change during this journey of searching, becoming angry, colorful, and purposeful .
I thought that Mr. May’s life was finally no longer quiet and lonely. He even reserved a cemetery for the deceased, a maroon tombstone that matched the color of the beret the deceased wore in the army, and a unique And mysterious funeral music, when asked, he said it was a friend of his.
Just when I thought everything was going to end, it really ended, not the end of the plot, but the end of life.
After Mr. Mei happily selected a coffee cup, he was ready to date a colorful part of his life. He did not look left and right when crossing the road, and was hit by an oncoming car. Life returned to silence, but he ended this silent life with a smile on his face.
After his death, he was buried in a corner of the cemetery without anyone being buried.
But at this time, all the people he served came over slowly and mourned him.
His life was as quiet and turbulent as everything he believed.
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