A decrease in demand, an exhaustion of resources, a rational decision, accompanied by the desolation of a small town, the end of a period of history, and the helpless migration of a group of people, all that remains are Fern and her ratty van, A land without roots.
Leaving the home where he has lived for more than 30 years, Fern seems to have become a homeless spirit in the eyes of others. The small and old RV is like a floating boat, which is briefly parked in different harbors every night, also carrying Fern. Go to different job sites. Along the unmanned highway, I work part-time in various small shops and factories until the fuel tank is full, and then continue to the next parking place.
Like Fern, there are friends of the same age or even older: even if he started working at the age of 12, worked as a worker and a teacher, he opened a pension account when he retired with only $500. The white-haired man is still wandering from village to village, looking for a suitable job opportunity from town to town.
On Fern's journey, all kinds of rootless travelers drove their own "caravans" and gathered together to become gypsies in modern society with their own reasons.
Some elderly people choose to exchange their houses for cash, use their RVs as their new homes, and drive to Hawaii to the end of their lives; some young people live as real hippies, wearing old-fashioned deerskin coats and dream catchers. Bare feet, ask you to borrow a cigarette on the side of the road; some people send away their loved ones one after another, with the regret of the deceased, trying to heal their inner grief through the natural scenery; Talking about the guilt that is difficult to face, trying to escape from the unspoken reality.
They may have roots somewhere, but they all face a spiritual borderline. And for Fern, where does her soul go?
The film seems bland, but it depicts a variety of realistic issues: the futility of the system, the fragility of aging, the eternity of nature, the falsity of the city, the passing of life, or it can be summed up as the ordinary world in the middle of the United States, true The life of the people in the urban Internet is unimaginable in the Middle Ages.
At the beginning of the film, the mystery is quietly left for the audience. In the eloquent life, Fern's inner world is revealed little by little. Her exile of her body may be due to the difficulty of her soul to others. give up.
Such love is like a ring in the hand, endless and endless; such love is like Zhao Ting's camera language, plain and gentle. Because everyone who has experienced parting feels the same sadness that is unspeakable and dare not mention easily, and even forgetting seems to be a betrayal of their old friends.
Because of the loss of you, my heart has become a helpless place.
I really like the calm, self-controlled, and warm humanistic care in the director's camera, like a cup of black coffee in the morning in the wasteland. end.
"Don't waste any time, help me laugh at pain, help me smile away the tears and see you at the end of our roads".
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