When does a person decide to die?
When you feel that life is boring.
If you find that a novel is not good-looking, you can skip it and replace it with another.
If you find that a game is not fun, you can delete it and play another game.
You find life boring, what do you do? Just end it.
Ove is like that.
Six months after his wife's death, he decided to kill himself.
"A Man Called Ove Decided to Die"
(Backstage reply "A man named Ove decided to die" to get resources)
01
Ove is a mean and old-fashioned man who lives in a small town in Sweden.
He would get up on time every morning to patrol the town.
Check that road signs are solid.
Tidy up toy cars.
Intimidate stray cats.
Pick up the cigarette butts on the ground.
Then get dressed and go to work.
However, not long ago he was fired from the factory that went digital.
So, instead of going to work, he can go directly to his wife's cemetery and present a bouquet of flowers to his wife.
Then talk about what happened yesterday.
But soon he didn't have to do it.
Because he was sure that he would die today.
He bought a rope to hang himself at home.
But apparently, things were not going well.
When he was hanged for the first time, a new neighbor moved in noisy outside and smashed his mailbox.
He came out cursing and helped them park the car helplessly.
When he was hanged for the second time, the new neighbor's daughter lay on the window and saw it.
Ove, probably afraid of scaring the little girl, had to put away the rope.
When he was hanged for the third time, he finally kicked the stool neatly.
But just moments before death, the rope snapped.
Ove is really pissed off!
Picking up the broken rope, he quarreled with the convenience store clerk, and left in despair.
The suicide didn't go well, but at that moment on the brink of death, Ove recalled the first half of his life that wasn't going well.
For example, his mother passed away at an early age.
Such as his father who was killed in front of his eyes.
Such as burning down their own home.
It sounds miserable.
But the details of these stories are actually a bit more brutal.
When his father was killed, he was holding Ove's report card, proudly showing off to his colleagues.
Ove's house was burned down, in fact, because a neighbor's house was on fire.
The others stood idly by, and only Ove rushed in to save them.
When the spreading fire affected Ove's home, no one offered a helping hand either.
When the firefighters wanted to put out the fire, the developer said, "It's all going to be demolished anyway, so there's no need to save it."
"A Man Named Ove Decided to Die" in the original book
"There is a moment in everyone's life that determines who they will become in the future.
You don't know the story, you don't know the person. "
Ove is mean.
When someone asked Ove to help him fix the hot water pipes, Ove said
"No, just two more blankets."
When did Ove get mean?
After Ove's father died, Ove came to work in his father's factory.
His father's former colleague tries to steal the only watch his father left to Ove.
Outraged, Ove knocked them over with a punch and snatched the watch back.
At that time, Ove learned to deal with the world with hostility.
Ove is always kind.
Although he drives the stray cats out of the house every morning.
But when he finds someone throwing a stone at a stray cat, he gets angry again.
When did Ove's kindness begin?
That was when Ove's father was still around.
Ove picks up a purse on the train where his father works, leaving his father at Ove's disposal.
Ove originally wanted to take it for himself, but ended up sending it to the Lost and Found Office.
My father told Ove, "Honesty is the most precious quality."
Such contradictory qualities permeated Ove's life.
Including when he met his wife Sonia .
After the house burns down, Ove, who has nothing left, secretly sleeps on the train, and when he wakes up, he sees a pair of beautiful red high-heeled shoes.
a gentle woman.
This is his future wife, Sonia .
He was clearly attracted to Sonia, but he got off the train in a hurry.
Then he had to come and ride the train every morning, hoping to see Sonia again.
After three months, he finally saw Sonia.
Ove really doesn't understand romance.
On their first date, facing the late girl, Ove said bluntly, "You're fifteen minutes late."
But Ove is romantic.
When Sonya asked Ove why he didn't eat, Ove confessed that he was poor.
If she doesn't eat it herself, with the money she saves, Sonia can order whatever she wants.
Ove is also very inferior, and after all this, he wants to run away.
This time, Sonia kissed him.
With Sonya's help, Ove went to study for an architect.
On the day of his diploma, he proposed to Sonia, and Sonia happily agreed.
This kind of love is really beautiful.
Because of Sonia, Ove regains his confidence in life.
So when Sonia dies, Ove will also want to leave with her.
02
Failed to hang himself.
Ove decides to commit suicide in the car - directing the exhaust into the airtight car, Ove will soon suffocate to death.
However, it also failed.
Again because of the new neighbors.
Neighbor Pavina 's husband fell off a ladder, and Ove reluctantly took them to the hospital again.
In order to take care of her husband, Pavina gave Ove the care of her two daughters.
Ove was ten thousand reluctant, but still had to deal with two little ancestors.
Ove told them stories, the emotional kind.
Ove pays the Joker to perform magic tricks for them.
By the time he got home, Ove thought he had finally gotten rid of the two little devils.
The two kids rushed up to hug Ove goodbye.
Hugs are soothing.
And later, the little girl drew a picture in which only Ove was in color.
Falling asleep in Ove's arms, defenseless.
Make faces with Ove through the window.
All of this made Ove's eagerness to commit suicide slow down a little.
Once, while waiting for a bus, Ove came across a man who fainted on the track.
Like the fire years ago, no one was willing to save the man, but Ove jumped.
Ove, who was standing on the track, suddenly didn't want to come up.
Maybe he thought being hit by a train would also be a good choice.
But when he looked back, he seemed to see himself as a child.
What was Ove thinking at that moment?
Is it the ecstasy of his father after he was able to avoid the train when he was a child?
Or the desperation of his father being killed in front of his eyes when he grows up?
Anyway, Ove climbed off the rails at the last minute.
But Ove's suicide didn't end there...
Ove's story is definitely not just that.
Don't forget the sentence at the beginning -
"There's a moment in everyone's life that decides who they're going to be. If you don't know the story, you don't know the person."
The rest of the story is left to you who are interested to discover from the movie.
03
The funniest thing about this movie is...
Ove tried his best to die, but the people around him were saving him intentionally or unintentionally.
If the Pavina family hadn't moved in, Ove's first suicide would have been a success.
If Pavina hadn't overbearingly asked Ove to send himself and his child to the hospital, then Ove's second suicide would have been a success.
The strong intervention of the Pavina family, with fireworks, saved Ove from his own cold world.
That's why "A Man Named Ove Decided to Die" feels so healing.
When someone was in the abyss of despair, it was fortunate that someone else came to pull him.
There is this passage in the original:
"People always say that Ove and Ove's wife are night and day. Ove knows all too well, of course, he is night. He doesn't care. But Ove's wife always finds it funny, so she always points out with a big smile. , everyone thinks Ove is the night because he is too kind to set the sun on fire."
Ove's night is lit by Sonya.
And you, who will become the sun of others, will also wait until a bright night.
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