Manipulative soap opera. If you want to cry for two hours, watch this movie. Ove is a Swedish engineer with low affect. He doesn't fit in in society and he dismisses most people as "idiots." He keeps trying to k--- h------ in graphic scenes that were hard to watch. He uses rope, a gun, and a jump in front of a train. He keeps failing.
He sees no point in living because his beloved wife Sonja, who put up with his immature nonsense, has passed away from cancer, and he lives in a world that doesn't want to put up with him.
A Persian woman moves in next door (there is a big Middle Eastern population in Sweden, and it has been a source of much societal tension.)
this woman turns Ove's life around. Suddenly he adopts a cat, allows a gay Persian boy to live in his house, and he saves a neighbor from being institutionalized.
This movie had some really lovely moments, mostly with young Ove interacting with his father, who cleans trains for a living.
It was very poignant watching how young Ove did not fit in in the world, and how he was mistreated by others.
But then one soap opera event after another was piled on, with no real goal except to make the audience cry.
And the saintly Persian woman turning his life around ... not believable in any respect. She wouldn't have done that in real life, and, again, in real life there is a great deal of tension between Swedes and Middle Easterners, and that isn't even hinted at in the movie, which makes the entire project suspect.
But, if you like tearjerkers / soap operas, you may like this movie.
He sees no point in living because his beloved wife Sonja, who put up with his immature nonsense, has passed away from cancer, and he lives in a world that doesn't want to put up with him.
A Persian woman moves in next door (there is a big Middle Eastern population in Sweden, and it has been a source of much societal tension.)
this woman turns Ove's life around. Suddenly he adopts a cat, allows a gay Persian boy to live in his house, and he saves a neighbor from being institutionalized.
This movie had some really lovely moments, mostly with young Ove interacting with his father, who cleans trains for a living.
It was very poignant watching how young Ove did not fit in in the world, and how he was mistreated by others.
But then one soap opera event after another was piled on, with no real goal except to make the audience cry.
And the saintly Persian woman turning his life around ... not believable in any respect. She wouldn't have done that in real life, and, again, in real life there is a great deal of tension between Swedes and Middle Easterners, and that isn't even hinted at in the movie, which makes the entire project suspect.
But, if you like tearjerkers / soap operas, you may like this movie.