A small and fresh Swedish film in Northern Europe. At first I thought it was about loneliness, but later I discovered that it was about life. Still in accordance with the usual way of writing film reviews, try to avoid detailed content spoilers in terms of this very cute movie.
I have always liked the saying, "This world is ridiculous". The absurdity of this world is not for you alone, but for everyone. The film tells and expresses in a narrative way, letting people's memories of the past and the reality of the present intersect repeatedly.
The atypical Swedish old man Ove's appearance is very lonely. The perennial gloomy Swedish weather, cemetery, neurotic complaints and screams make the whole picture depressing. The reason why the protagonist in the film is an atypical old Swedish man is because the artistic expression makes his character traits appear paranoid and exaggerated. If the entire character is reduced, Ove should be a typical old Swedish man. Among the Swedes who have been in contact with, you will find that there is a very significant characteristic. They are very principled, persistent and even a little bit paranoid. They are cold outside and hot inside. These characteristics are the most prominent of the male protagonist Ove, so this film Definitely a typical Swedish movie.
After reviewing Ove's life a little bit in the narrative, you will especially sympathize with his ill-fated life, so you may even understand why he chose to commit suicide. Whenever he faced misery, there were always people who were stronger and stronger than him by his side, his father, and his wife. After his wife passed away, his life seemed to be irresistible. When watching Ove's story a little bit with the movie, I can't help but think about it. If one day we reach 60 years old and remember our life, will we also find it absurd and ridiculous?
I think Ove's life is like many people's lives, full of hardships and twists, full of fucking and absurdity. No one is born to accept these, but very few people can avoid them in their lives. We may experience completely different sufferings or very similar sufferings. We lost our mother when we were young like Ove, our father died unexpectedly, the house was burned, and our wife was pregnant with a car accident and had a miscarriage and was paralyzed, and finally lived through the year of destiny. His relatives and spiritual support have died of cancer. After 43 years of work, they said nothing... When we watched it, we felt that "I went to this place too bloody", but in retrospect, the real life is worse than this. Blood a hundred times.
Ove has been fighting all his life, fighting against fate. Just as the movie implies that he sticks to principles, the same is actually a struggle. Ove decided to die not because he was cowardly, but because he was tired and didn't want to fight for too long. But destiny makes him absurdly unable to give up if he wants to give up resistance, and makes him unable to die easily if he wants to die. So he was alive and destined to fight to the end, he was destined to hysterically adhere to the principle, and he was destined to fight but his fate would eventually obey the fate's arrangements and leave this world peacefully. This movie secretly tells us a particularly vague philosophical truth. It doesn't make it so clear, but it makes people understand that this is life.
The key character in the film is Ove's wife, Sonia, who has passed away but is regarded as a god. Although she has never appeared in the current life of the film, she has affected many people. She encourages the messenger students and is also a beacon of Ove's spirit. His wife seems to represent a source of strength not to compromise with fate.
Sonia insisted on looking for a job after a car accident and paralyzed. She wanted to become a teacher, but the school didn't accept her. After Ove's various efforts and complaints were unsuccessful, she was depressed. Sonia said something that was the core of the film: "Should we choose to die, or try to live?" After that, Ove braved the rain to repair the slope by herself at the school entrance, Sonia Since then began the teacher's career.
Whether you are standing at the foot of a mountain and feeling insurmountable in your life, or having difficulty walking in front of the steps in a wheelchair, what we need to do is not to self-pity, but to find ways to get over. It doesn't matter whether you try to climb or find a way to build a road, as long as you pass, look back and you will find that all the hurdles in the past are no longer hurdles.
Ove decided to die after Sonia passed away, and no longer wanted to try to live. He was as discouraged as the weather, and he was as lonely as a cat, and he was finally digested by his nonsense neighbors. However, just after he had given up the idea of death, he had to accept the fact that he would face death at any time. This is the most absurd thing in life, life and death, sometimes it is really not your choice.
Looking back at Ove's life is actually looking back at his own life in advance. We came to this world and suffered so much and felt so much love. What this world brings to us is absurdity, and it also cultivates our ability to face absurdity. None of us can guarantee how far the happiness of the moment will last, and none of us believe that the future will not be worse than the present. There is no way, this is a fucking life, no one can escape.
So how are we going to live this fucking life?
Try to live until death comes.
The article was first published from the public account: Momo Whisper
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