The whole film runs through the strong Nordic style, and carries the deep cold and loneliness to the end.
John is a very ordinary social worker, his job is to find loved ones for the lonely dead and send them on their last journey. John's job may seem boring, but in fact he has a deep affection for it.
In the eyes of his colleagues, John is a person who works hard, but he reveals the tenderness and kindness of human nature throughout the film. After learning that he was fired by the company, he decided to use all his strength to take care of the last deceased.
The deceased deceased at the beginning of the film seems to be a person who has no relatives, friends, or even alcoholism and violence. It is conceivable that he has no hope for life, and only lives to live. The people who should be buried under the dust should be buried alone, but John is willing to spend almost a week looking for people related to the deceased to attend his funeral. Through John, we learned that the deceased seems to be spurned by everyone but is comparable to the wonderful life of ordinary people.
A rare "lively" gathered in front of the tomb of a deceased who should have been ignored, and people related to the deceased stood together to mourn, embrace and comfort. It was exactly what John wanted to see, but unfortunately he never saw it again. At the moment when the deceased held the funeral, the funeral car containing John's ashes also slowly drove into the distance. I thought John could live a happy life according to the tone of the movie, but in fact, he always taught people a profound lesson with life-loving jokes. A car accident took his life away at the age of 44, the day before the funeral of the deceased.
John is also a person who has no relatives or friends. The deserted office environment, the empty streets, and the boring dinner all reveal his loneliness all the time. It is such a lonely person, who has nothing to do with the outside world except for work, but at the end of the movie, he is surrounded by relatives and friends who remember him. The relatives and friends who appeared before John's silent tomb were the souls of the deceased that John had sent away in his 20-plus years of work.
John is a warm person. He understands the preferences of the deceased according to the identity of the deceased, souvenirs, etc., so as to help the deceased prepare a eulogy written by himself, a specially selected memorial music, a burial method that respects the beliefs of the deceased, and the most suitable burial method. Coffin category. Their souls are buried quietly in the tombs that John carefully selected for them. John's final ending, although tragic, was psychologically balanced by an "unattended" farewell. Death is not scary, what is scary is the disrespect for life. There is no fear of loneliness, what is feared is the coldness of humanity in the breath of fireworks. Treating life with sincerity, keeping kindness and smiling is the proper attitude.
There are many details in this film that make people think deeply. The film seems to be depressing and dull, but it actually makes me feel the meaning of life. Behind life is loneliness, and everyone should feel loneliness well. The things of life are hard to say, one person, one meal and one tea are enough. Bless every kind person can have happiness, and the suffering soul can be redeemed.
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