Objectively speaking, this "A Man Called Ovie Decides to Die" actually lacks the basis for becoming a popular movie. It is flat, trivial, and lacks a real drama climax, but the reason why it has moved so many people may be because its protagonist Ovi reminds us of the type of people we often encounter around us: stubborn, stubborn, and stubborn. Full of resentment at all people and things. Usually, we treat them as monsters and troubles and stay away. But this movie peeled off their self-protection armor layer by layer, revealing a soft heart, and let us know why they are what they are today. This story is deep in a person's past, not just entangled in a person's present.
"A Man named Ovi decides to die" has a typical Scandinavian movie style, a peaceful small environment and the ordinary life landscape of a few people. Ovie, who had been working in the factory since his apprenticeship, was fired on the threshold of 59 years old. When he returned home, he watched as the community chairperson, who had carefully maintained the rules of the community for half his life, was gradually ignored. The young people who moved in felt that this stubborn old head was a troublesome problem. Everything went wrong, and he felt more comfortable only when he went to chat with his wife’s tomb and offered flowers every day. Therefore, he decided to die. From hanging up to the shotgun, every attempt was interrupted halfway through. While cursing around him, he was trying hard to get along with the old and new neighbors while cursing. In this passive process, they unexpectedly got to know each other again.
The movie turns every illusion of dying into a retrospective, reflecting the imagination that people pass by word of mouth, the moment before death, the whole life flowing in front of them. If it is said that the current part of reality presents Ovie’s stubborn “result”, then those illusory parts of retrospect are the “process” that explains how he became like this: father and son depend on each other for life, but he saw his father die in misfortune; A cute and loyal love history; about to become a father, but during a trip, because of a car accident, he lost his child and his wife was paralyzed for life; for the rights and dignity of his wife, he worked hard to improve the environment, he went to school and built it by himself The slope for wheelchairs to go up and down has been reduced, and his kitchen workbench has been shortened by tens of centimeters...
This interesting contrast setting allows people to intuitively see a sharp contrast. People think that Ovie in reality has always been this kind of hard and disregarded appearance, but gradually people know that he is a man with such a soft heart and full of lasting love. He was ashamed to let the softness be exposed, so he turned himself into a spike, and the inner conflict forged his "weird", just as he kept all his wife’s relics in his house, from photos to clothes, and didn’t want to discard it. Don't let others get involved.
In a symbolic sense, he and his newly moved neighbor have become a kind of complementarity-complementarity in family form and character. They set off against each other and mirrored each other. Ovie is rigid and his neighbors are flexible; Ovie is alone, and his neighbors are all lively and lively; Ovie only drove Saab cars made in Sweden throughout his life, but the neighbors were Muslim immigrants from foreign countries; Ovie buried everything. In my heart, neighbors are willing to share everything with people-they are happy to ask for help, and they are happy to share food and happiness with their neighbors. Slowly you will find that they are together, accidentally forming a "family" of "different appearance", supporting each other in the noisy, and slowly changing each other. The neighbor’s mistress became pregnant and gave birth to a child, which became a delicate compensation for Ovie’s loss of the child. Reality uses this interesting way to re-achieve the possibility of a different life-if he has not experienced those tragic things, his old age may be another situation.
Generally speaking, our cognition of a person can only stay on the surface and the present, and few people are willing or truly able to explore the heart and experience of the other person. Experience cannot be transplanted and shared. Therefore, our understanding of most people is rude. We rashly believe that a person is easy-going or stubborn, secure or stubborn, and we label and file the matter. But when we can walk into a person's "historical scene" and watch their little changes, we will understand the complexity and mottledness of a person. Entering a talent from the process will produce "empathy" and "empathy", so the premise of understanding is true understanding.
I don’t know if Chinese audiences are more concerned about "A Man Called Ovi Decides to Die". Over the past few decades, our society has undergone tremendous changes. The result of high-speed rotation is that there have been huge differences between generations. It seems to pass each other every day, but many of them cannot understand each other or even contradict each other. None of us wants to stop and dive into each other's experience and history. It seems that we feel that everyone in the previous generation is as unreasonable as Ovie. Are we willing to hear what path others have gone through? This allows us to understand why we meet in this way here.
Ovie eventually died, dying of illness, lying in bed peacefully, he reached the "destination" he wanted, but in another way. Before leaving this world, he reconciled with the world.
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