Such a frustrating disappointment

Nice effects though.

Better Late Then Never

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

There is an old man who seems to be retired from car company. He seems he doesn't have his own family, and being alone all day. Since he wants to talk with someone, he sometimes go to his previous work place, but workers say not to come. Moreover, in order to talk, he calls many people at random, and a woman comes to his house to talk about her country. He is happy to have a person to talk with, but he gets angry easily, so the woman comes to be afraid of him. What will happen in the ending? Before watching everything, I expected how it will end. My idea is kind of right, but it has more surprising ending! I wish there were no men like him in a real world.

A old man is in a bus and speaks to a girl sitting on a next seat but she shows no interest in him. He gets to a factory where he worked in the past. He speaks this former colleagues but they refuse to deal with him. He comes back home and he calls someone who don't know him to get a partner to speak. Then, a girl who propagates religion visits him. He is glad to get the partner to speak to. However, she tries to leave. I think the situation in this film resembles a problem of dying alone Japan. In Japan old people die alone and many times pass because nobody notices that they are dead. I think dying alone is caused by a lack of a relation to people. This film tells me that it is very difficult to keep the relation but that is the most important thing to live.

At first, I thought this movie will end happily. However, my view is reserved. I don't know loneliness because I have never experienced it. But if I become the same situation as this man, I will suffer. I have a few questions. Why does one woman visit an old man's house? Why are his town's people curt? So I want to know this man's past, because maybe this man has an unpleasant element and do it to friends. This movie shows human's emotions, because it depicts anger, loneliness,happiness and so on. Through these main character's feelings, I think I should have consideration to everyone. So I could learn connection with people.

Birger works at Volvo and tries to talk to people as he gets the bus to work. However he doesn't work at Volvo anymore as he has retired but has nothing to do but hang around. His loneliness is very hard for him and he is grateful when a knock on the door brings a girl preaching about Hare Krishna to his home. He invites her in but his desire for even a conversation is intimidating to her.The title of this film in English is 'Talk' and it sums up the content pretty well even if the film goes further than it should have done. In essence the film is quite moving and very real as we see Birger struggling to find anyone who will spend time with him. At my job we have a similar guy who retired years ago but continues to hang around even though many just feel sorry for him – this film has a similar guy in the lead. He tries to talk on the bus and, even in the early scene before we know much about him, he seems lonely and desperate. The film extends this idea well but, in the last few minutes it goes somewhere that I didn't expect and didn't fit with the tangible reality that I felt it had built up till that point.This is a complaint but it is not one that takes away what it had done in the 10 minutes or so up till this point. The character of Birger is well written but succeeds because of very good delivery from Ljunggren. His natural and pained performance is spot on and he is the cornerstone of the film. Frode is annoying and the film doesn't treat her very well but it's easy not to really notice her part in the end of the film as Ljunggren is pretty dominant.Overall this is a great little film that blows it a bit at the end by losing touch with the reality that it had set up so well – but this is not enough to make this a bad short film, just a lesser one than it should have been. But the material, the direction and Birger makes it well worth seeing.