Movie Review SSJ

The old man with no presence. One house, one lamp, one bed, one table, one pot …… A retired man who is lonely at heart, long widowed, silent in relation to life, and only called by his name when he attends team practice, Waghorn. The exile of bad taste. One man, one pack, prison doors closing behind him, no goodbye, just a blank face. John walks aimlessly through the streets of a foreign land. Passing an empty car, he nimbly got into it, so nimbly that it was desperate. It was the anniversary of the death of Waghorn’s father, and he laid a bouquet of flowers at his father’s grave. It was the day John was released from prison, covered in loan sharks, and he had a home to return to. At the same time, it was the day when Waghorn went to Gävle with his team for an away soccer match, but he was unfortunately left behind by his teammates at a service station. And John, who had just finished robbing the convenience store at the gas station, was again asked for help by Vagn as a gas station employee.

One is eager to catch the team bus Waghorn, one is busy to get away from the scene of the crime John, two originally unrelated people in this day undignified meet and achieve a in each other are unexpected and meaningful journey …… life seems calm but also never easy, it always brings people this or that kind of scars.

The elderly Wagner watched the sudden death of his father, who played soccer together in his childhood, at an age when he did not understand death but had to face the irrevocable life. Silence, avoidance, a wound almost hidden for life.

The young John’s business failed because of his friend’s betrayal, and he was discouraged at the age of chasing his dream, and went astray at the age of ambition. A wound almost ruined a lifetime. What kind of ties, so that John with Wagner want to shake off but can not get rid of, had to drive him home to rob the gas station; is what kind of involvement, so that Wagner face John want to escape can not escape, agreed not to violence not betray. A vicious behavior is revealed, a disillusioned and despondent, the same in the end of the world, who is not a wanderer? The two people bound together by fate, confide in each other, confide in each other. The evil John has a literary temperament and humanistic feelings; the quiet and patient Wagner has a lifelong love. You help me make up for my regrets and heal my wounds; I persuade you to face your mistakes and pay off your debts. …… An unexpected journey is not a tailor-made redemption. So this is the life to be thankful for, where we are traumatized and healed, where we experience bitterness and troubles and happiness and joy. As the priest said when he made up for the funeral service of his father for Vagn:

No one wants to say in their last days that if I could live again, I would climb more mountains, swim more rivers, seize more opportunities, and worry less for no reason in the face of those difficulties. God created this world for us to find joy here. Every day is a gift, live it well, cherish and enjoy the joy and love in it