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Today I'll show you a romance drama film: "The Man Called Ove"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with Ove browsing a bouquet in a boutique shop for his wife's grave
After his visit, he does his rounds of making sure the neighborhood is safe, clean, and quiet
Then he travels for work, but only to hear his boss wants to fire him, although he already knows
Ove goes home, packs his food, and ends his telephone subscription
Later, he wears a suit, only to prepare himself to join his wife
He looks at her photo one last time and stands on a stool to reach the noose in the ceiling
He wears it around his neck, inhales deeply, and leans away from the chair
But suddenly he hears someone shouting
Ove investigates the disturbance in front of his house
Outside, he sees a new family moving to the opposite of Ove's house
He hears the immigrant neighbor instructing her husband, Patrick, to reverse the car correctly
Ove scolds Patrick for driving in the streets because it's prohibited
Patrick comes out to introduce himself, but Ove dismisses him
Patrick resumes driving, but he only flattens Ove's mailbox
Ove hurriedly takes over and breezily navigates the car when the trunk suddenly beeps
Patrick notes the installed radar and camera
Ove turns back and sees the two beautiful daughters of Patrick and his wife
Ove fits the car on the family's lawn, insulting Patrick for his poor driving
After that, Ove returns home to continue his business
The other neighbors pour towards the newly moved-in family and welcome them
The following day, Ove does his rounds
Then outside, Ove sees the trailer parked on the family's lawn
He clips a note to it, saying to park it in the assigned parking space,
and rattles the bin's lid onto the trailer to wake up the immigrant and Patrick
When Ove reaches the garage, his late wife's student with his gay friend approaches Ove
and asks about the bike Ove hid from his yesterday round
Ove only tells the student to let his girlfriend retrieve it herself
Ove then walks in the street and encounters his podgy neighbor,
who likes to eat whenever he can at the neighbor's houses
The podgy neighbor asks Ove if he's doing fine because Ove's not at work
Ove dismisses the podgy neighbor's concern and returns to walk
until he catches the Whiteshirts' car driving around the neighborhood
Ove likes to call men in suits "Whiteshirts"
Right then, Ove calls the attention of Whiteshirts, and he parks in front of him
He taps on the vehicle's hood
and says the Whiteshirts violate the neighborhood's rules by driving inside the community
He chuckles as he rudely throws the used cigarette at Ove before driving away
Ove heads to his frenemy's house to pick up the Whiteshirts's another litter of cigarette butt
The frenemy's old wife sees him, then asks what has happened
So, Ove vents that the Whiteshirts ignoring the rules
Still, the old wife briefs the Whiteshirts as the local council,
who wants to institutionalize her husband because he's paralyzed after suffering a stroke
She then requests help with the radiator, but Ove denies her request
He says to double their blankets
Afterward, Ove revisits his wife's grave and apologizes for missing out yesterday
He tells about the newly moved-in family across his house,
about the people's incompetence in little things,
and the planned institutionalization for his frenemy
Nonetheless, Ove doesn't care anymore since he'll be joining his wife soon
He heads home to hang himself but suddenly, the doorbell rings
He ignores it at first, but the ringing is persistent
So he checks again to see who interrupted his attempted suicide
He opens the door and sees the couple's daughters hand him some Persian cuisine,
but he questions if they're selling
The couple arrives to explain the food's as a gift then they apologize for the trailer
They ask if he's hungry; but he replies, "no"
The family leaves with the food;
but Ove calls them again to retrieve the gift since he's against wasting food
Patrick asks if Ove can lend his ladder, and Ove bluntly says he has one since it's a necessity
Patrick then carries the ladder from Ove's house,
and he comments he's fortunate to have an experienced neighbor
To Ove's surprise, his frenemy's old wife later arrives to ask for help again
When he gives her instructions, the immigrant interposes her greetings to the old wife
Ove tries to leave, but it's the immigrant who relays the old wife's request this time
Then Ove, who doesn't want to offer any help,
suddenly bursts out that if his frenemy didn't plan a coup against him in the first place,
maybe he'll willingly help her fix the radiator
Once Ove goes inside his house again, the old wife tells the history between Ove and his frenemy
But Patrick grabs the wrong tool, triggering Ove, and asks the three to leave his lawn
Frustrated, Ove returns inside, heavily breathing while weeping
Beside him are his late wife's clothes, and he smells them
He then imagines his youth with his late wife
He returns to the noose and kicks the stool away
While hanging,
He was left with his quiet father, who taught him everything about engines
During his childhood, Ove almost died because of standing in the way of train tracks,
but his father saved him
It was also the first time his father embraced him
Years passed to Ove's adulthood, Ove received exemplary grades, making his father proud
His father shared Ove's grades with his co-workers who were hanging out near the train tracks
Unfortunately, his father failed to avoid the upcoming train behind him
and got hit by the train due to excitement
Back to the present, the noose snaps due to Ove's weight
Because of this, Ove furiously returns the rope
and complains how its ads are lying about the durability
Afterward, he revisits his wife's graves and naps beside it for a moment
He returns to his neighborhood, catching a dog owner throwing stones at a stray cat
because the cat happened to scratch the dog owner's dog
The dog owner leaves frustrated, and Ove tries to scatter the cat, but it remains seated
So, Ove walks in to get the Persian cuisine and feed it to the cat
but the cat is gone when he returns outside
Ove goes inside again and eats the food instead
After his meal, Ove travels to his frenemy's house to retrieve his hose,
but the old wife uses this opportunity to have Ove fix their radiator
With no choice, Ove repairs the radiator while the old wife goes to take the hose
While she's away, Ove talks to his frenemy in the wheelchair in the middle of the living room
Ove updates him that the rules they established in the neighborhood are starting to collapse
Ove also discloses his plan to reunite with his late wife
Just then, the old wife returns with the hose along with the podgy neighbor
The old wife asks Ove to join dinner, but he declines the offer
since his frenemy would not understand anything
The old wife tells him not to underestimate his frenemy's comprehension
Ove glances at his frenemy, who's looking at him
Then, Ove's about to leave when his frenemy suddenly grabs the hose Ove's holding
Despite the history between them, Ove's so-called frenemy cares for him deeply,
especially knowing Ove's plan
Ove goes to the garage and sits in his running car for another suicide attempt
He connects the hose he retrieved from the old wife to the car's exhaust
and places the hose inside the car with closed windows and doors
to poison himself with carbon monoxide
While inhaling the poison, he remembers the day after his father died
He tried to return his father's advanced payment, but the manager declined
Instead, the manager gave Ove a cleaning job on the train
Unfortunately, Ove became a robbery victim from his co-workers without his father's presence,
but he knew how to fight them back
Then at Ove's home, two Whiteshirts came and informed him
that his house was a target for demolition
Ove outsmarted them and renovated his home, which frustrated the Whiteshirts
Coincidentally, that night, his neighbors' house caught on fire,
and he bravely saved two trapped neighbors inside
Regrettably, while Ove focused on his neighbor's house, his house burned to flames as well
The firefighters put out the fire,
but the Whiteshirts stopped them because the place was soon to be demolished
Homeless, he slept on the train and woke up to see a charming young woman seated opposite him
However, he only saw her again after three weeks
They dated in a restaurant, bonded with each other, and got married eventually
She even convinced Ove to study engineering, and he finished a degree two years later
Suddenly, a loud knock interrupts Ove's plan again
Ove grunts while he opens the garage door to see the immigrant looking for him
The immigrant requests a ride to the hospital because her husband fell from the ladder
Ove, the immigrant, and the two daughters travel to the hospital
While in the hospital, Ove babysits the daughters
He imitates a bear voice while reading them a book, which makes the daughters laugh
After the visit, the four of them return home
When the immigrant says goodbye, the daughters hug him
The next day, Ove decides to jump onto the train tracks
However, a passenger currently waiting on the platform faints
and unluckily drops onto the train tracks
He looks at the others and sees no one initiating to help
So Ove leaps down to save the passenger
The fallen passenger is safe, yet he remains on the tracks
He is determined to die
Right then, he sees his young self on the platform
Ove grabs the extended hand of another passenger and climbs
He leaves the station, unsuccessfully executing his plan
Ove is on his way home when the immigrant calls for him
The immigrant hands him her daughter's colorful drawing of Ove
While Ove looks at the drawing, the immigrant quickly requests Ove to help her to drive
While talking, the stray cat returns and hides beside Ove's house
The immigrant immediately carries the cat and hastily instructs Ove to get a blanket
Ove quickly follows and grabs a blanket from his bedroom
But suddenly, he stops and clutches his aching chest
He slowly descends and finds the podgy neighbor who removes his shirt to cuddle the cat
They head to the kitchen and find the counters lowered
The podgy neighbor explains Ove's wife uses a wheelchair;
and he happily retells that he used to eat in Ove's house, when his late wife was still alive
Then they decide whom to give the stray cat
The next day, Ove revisits his late wife's grave to introduce the cat that used to annoy him
He then returns to the neighborhood's parking lot
He sees the chairman teaching the immigrant to drive,
who's apparently failing because she keeps stepping on the brakes
In Ove's kitchen, he feeds a canned tuna to the cat
Bothered by the immigrant's decision to seek help from the chairman,
Ove goes to the immigrant's house and agrees to teach her how to drive
On the road, the immigrant panics midway due to the honking car behind them
Ove confronts the driver behind them, yanks him out, and shouts he has not seen the beginner's sign
Ove huffs and returns inside the car
He reminds the immigrant learning to drive is nothing,
compared to all the struggles she experienced
Then, they eat in a dessert shop after the lesson
Ove chooses Napoleon cake and picks specific chair seats
Ove recounts to the immigrant about him and his frenemy's history
They initially planned to run the neighborhood together,
wherein Ove was the chairman and his frenemy the deputy
But eventually, they drifted because they liked different car brands
Other than that, his frenemy staged a "coup" and ousted Ove as chairman
Days pass by; Ove gradually grows a soft spot to his neighbors
He bonds with his cat, fixes a bike for his wife's student,
openly accepts the student's gay friend, continuously teaches the immigrant her driving lessons,
and repairs the immigrant's dishwasher when Ove babysits the two daughters
After another driving lesson, Ove giddily laughs along with the immigrant for the first time,
while walking home
Unfortunately, the Whiteshirts disrupts the moment with his continuous disobeying of rules;
Ove stops the car, but the Whiteshirts threaten Ove about his past and heart, which angers Ove
The Whiteshirts return to his car and drive away from Ove
He runs home and breaks down
While teary-eyed, he remembers when his wife announced her pregnancy to him
His bitter tears turn into sweet ones
In the attic, Ove grabs the shotgun underneath a cradle he built
That night, Ove attempts another suicide with a shotgun
He leaves his undergarments on, and then looks at the cat on his bed
He opens the radio, covers the living room in plastic, sits in the middle,
and is about to shoot himself until the doorbell rings
Outside, the gay friend of his wife's student waits
The student shares that his gay friend came out gay to his father, and now he has nowhere to stay
during his attempt at suicide
The following day, the gay friend prepares breakfast for him before Ove's rounds
Ove is reluctant at first, but he eats them eventually along with the gay friend
When it's time for Ove to do his rounds, the gay friend joins with Ove
Outside, the podgy neighbor calls Ove and the gay friend to join with Ove's rounds,
while the podgy neighbor exercises
Then, while they do the rounds,
the podgy neighbor tells Ove about his frenemy moving out tomorrow for institutionalization,
but Ove doubts this
However, the podgy neighbor insists it's true,
and the old wife fought against institutionalizing his frenemy for years,
but the decision is out already
Ove asks why he's clueless; the podgy neighbor says the old wife didn't want to bother Ove
Ove rushes to his frenemy's house
and takes every document about his frenemy's plan of institutionalization
The old wife gives the papers to Ove;
then Ove goes to the immigrant's house to borrow a phone because he ended his subscription last time
On-call, he shouts at the operator, but they cut off Ove
He vents out to the immigrant how all the Whiteshirts have different looks but the same minds
Then the immigrant gets mad because Ove is not fighting enough
So, she says she's tired of dealing with Ove's hypocrisy and allows him to leave the house
Ove stacks the documents on the coffee table; he goes quiet
While Ove and the immigrant sit awkwardly,
Ove brings up the story about his late wife's wish to vacation before her labor
Ove told her about their trip to Spain; but the bus collapsed on the way back
His wife miscarried the baby, ended up in a wheelchair, making the teaching job an impossible task
The local government refused to create a wheelchair ramp,
but the ever-handy Ove went to the school later and built one
The Whiteshirts arrive to fetch Ove's frenemy the next day, ready to take him to the institution
But with the help of the internet, they find out the institution has tax evasion issues
Ove and the neighborhood succeed in saving his frenemy
Ove retells what happened to his frenemy, who smiles at Ove when he hears the story
Outside, while doing his rounds, Ove collapses in the middle of the street
Luckily, the immigrant finds him and immediately calls an ambulance
At the hospital, Ove tells the hospital the immigrant is his daughter
The doctor arrives and announces Ove's suffering from an enlarged heart,
but he'll be able to overcome it
The immigrant laughs at him,
and comments that Ove's horrible at dying because no matter how many attempts he kills himself,
he's still survived them
The same with his heart problem, where he will still survive from it
After the immigrant's labor, a gathering for welcoming the newborn baby occurs
Ove gives the cradle he built before to the immigrant
Her daughters approach Ove calling him their grandfather
After the embrace, Ove offers the daughters a present
Then the immigrant asks Ove to hold the baby
He cradles the baby, and eventually stations the baby on the cradle
He smiles at the sight of the children as if they are his grandchildren or a child he never had
The movie ends on one winter morning
The immigrant notices Ove's lawn still covered in snow, and is not awake in his usual routine
The couple goes to Ove's house and sees him die in sleep
The cat on top of him
He leaves a letter for the couple requesting a quiet funeral and instructions for the cat's care
The whole neighborhood visits Ove's funeral
Then Ove wakes up on the train where he first met his wife, waiting for him
Ove views his life as useless after his wife dies
Unknowingly, the whole neighborhood joins at his funeral
because they appreciate Ove more than his grumpy personality,
but rather because he's kind, brave, loyal, and is a softie with a big heart
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