Each of us has more or less experiences like this: For something that embarrass us but has to do, we always want to finish it quickly to get rid of its entanglement as soon as possible. In the film, Annika's father is a failed refrigerator salesman, but even when he visits his daughter's boyfriend's family in the countryside, he has to pretend to be noble and even bring his own refrigerator to show off. When he wanted to demonstrate the function of the refrigerator and use it with cold beer, he found that it couldn't work when he connected it to the power source, so he immediately went out of the house angrily and smashed the two bottles of beer that he had planned to put in the refrigerator. Maintaining a proud posture from start to finish is actually to conceal the humbleness inside. On the other hand, Pär's father used pretending to be cool to bring his embarrassment, such as when he told a cold joke, such as when he reluctantly lit a firework. From these daily trivia, it is not difficult to see how servile most adults are in society.
Pär and Annika are too young to understand the depression of the adult world, but the subtle influence of their parents is also working on them. Pär felt embarrassed because he was beaten by a man who was one of his own in front of Annika. He didn't want to see Annika but pretended to be upright to maintain his dignity. Fortunately, Annika took the initiative to put down her reservations to save Pär, otherwise a good story might die early.
But in fact, as an ordinary person, it is almost impossible to get rid of the shackles of humbleness. When seeing more upscale scenes, when encountering new problems that have never been faced before, the fear of not dealing with it makes people more humble. So we have to pretend to be as clever as possible, as if everyone believes our disguise. This is our only prayer for life. I only hope that you can ignore our uncontrollable humility, because it is so insignificant to you, you should turn your face and pretend that you have never seen it. It seems that this is a small agreement between us and life. With this agreement, we can continue our ordinary life with peace of mind.
But why don't we hope that the sorrows in our hearts can quickly dissipate like the rain, dew and mist in the last morning of the film?
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