This is a deeply psychological drama, free from any action. Slow movement with separate episodes forming a puzzle.
Subtly and from various episodes, the movie constructs a picture of a man, who at some point was abandoned by his mom, and his dad became and remains his only real affection. The son barely speaks to his mom. The affection father - son is mutual and exclusive for anybody else, even for girlfriends/wife. Some females do appear in the picture, but they do not have his love extended to them, even after intimacies take place.
The father is sick, and the son is emotionally engrossed into the thinking of death. He runs away from an evening in the bar. He comes to the funeral of a stranger he met on the bus to see how it looks like to be dead. He rents hotel rooms under the names of deceased men, and nobody comes to question him - because those men are already forgotten! He still wants to fight death, even when the dying person is an old lady, not particularly attractive while unconsciously spread on her bed in her underwear. The hero is disgusted by the view, but performs CPR and saves her life.
The final exchange - a small number of words - serves as a key to the whole movie.
Subtly and from various episodes, the movie constructs a picture of a man, who at some point was abandoned by his mom, and his dad became and remains his only real affection. The son barely speaks to his mom. The affection father - son is mutual and exclusive for anybody else, even for girlfriends/wife. Some females do appear in the picture, but they do not have his love extended to them, even after intimacies take place.
The father is sick, and the son is emotionally engrossed into the thinking of death. He runs away from an evening in the bar. He comes to the funeral of a stranger he met on the bus to see how it looks like to be dead. He rents hotel rooms under the names of deceased men, and nobody comes to question him - because those men are already forgotten! He still wants to fight death, even when the dying person is an old lady, not particularly attractive while unconsciously spread on her bed in her underwear. The hero is disgusted by the view, but performs CPR and saves her life.
The final exchange - a small number of words - serves as a key to the whole movie.