However, in this version, Malcolm, unlike Adrian, is trans, which has him filling in the role of a younger queer character in the narrative.
He's also a twenty-something male with a bike that Otto originally underestimates. In A Man Called Otto, these two characters are consolidated into Malcolm ( Mack Bayda). Later on, Mirsad is thrown out of his house by his homophobic father, and Ove, initially reluctantly, lets him stay over for a while. While visiting him at an eatery he works for, Ove encounters Mirsad, Adrian’s co-worker and a gay man. However, Ove later learns that Adrian wants to fix the bike for his girlfriend and that this kid is working multiple jobs. In A Man Called Ove, Adrian is a twenty-something who wants to fix a bike that Ove initially dismisses as just being a troublemaking youngster. There was a great dividing line between the past and present in the Ove flashbacks, whereas Otto blurs the lines a bit more to indicate how consumed Otto is by memories of yesteryear.Īn especially interesting character change comes in how A Man Called Otto translates the two characters Adrian ( Simon Edenroth) and Mirsad ( Poyan Karimi).
In another contrast to Ove, A Man Called Otto often has the older present-day version of Otto briefly appear in these flashback sequences.
This establishes that the flashbacks in Otto are almost exclusively focused on the relationship between Sonya and Otto. While their meeting in A Man Called Ove is by chance (a homeless Ove stows away on a train to get some rest and awakens sitting across from a beautiful lady), here, Otto sees Sonya drop a book and then rushes to return it to her. Instead, the focus of the flashbacks (beyond a quick montage of Otto's childhood) begins when Otto meets Sonya (Rachel Keller), the woman who would become his wife. Other key events from Ove’s past, such as his neighbor’s house catching fire and leading to the destruction of his childhood home, are also gone. We do not see Otto’s dad get hit by a train and die just after his son hit a massive education milestone, as we did in A Man Called Ove, with Otto only off-handedly mentioning in one of the flashbacks that his father recently passed away. Otto’s father only appears briefly in his flashbacks, instilling in the boy his lifelong love for Chevy automobiles. However, they’ve now been compressed heavily. A Man Called Otto preserves the presence of flashbacks and primarily utilizes them during moments when it looks like Otto is about to end it all.
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