~

Henri 2022-04-21 09:02:04

Some people choose to go on the road, in order to pursue something, to find something; and some people have to go on the road, in order to remember something and keep something.

As the cancer-stricken grandma said: "I'm 75 years old and I think I've had a pretty good life. I've seen a lot of good things kayaking around, by the river in Idaho , I've seen a family of elk, on a lake in Colorado, a big white pelican landed in front of my kayak, after paddling a corner, there's a cliff, and I've seen hundreds of swallows stop On the cliff, there are swallows flying in the air, and with the reflection of the river, it looks like I am also flying, and the swallows are flying around me, and the young swallows have just hatched their shells, small The eggshells fell from the cliff to the water and floated on the water, those white eggshells, it was so beautiful. I feel like I've been through enough, my life is complete, if I die in that moment, yes For me, no problem at all. I don't know, maybe when I die, my friends will sit around the campfire and throw stones into the fire in my memory."

And just as the last grandfather who lost his son said: "I met hundreds of people on the road, I never said goodbye, I always said, we will see each other on the road. We did see each other later. A month later, a Years later, sometimes years later, I met them again. I looked ahead and felt confident that I would see my son again. You will see Bo again, and you will remember the time you spent together."

View more about Nomadland reviews

Extended Reading
  • Tate 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    Zhao Ting has her own set of wandering film language. Like many young American directors, she has her own way of telling the low-level people and the wandering journey without support. But while Zhao Ting wanders uninhibitedly, her heart is traditionally gentle. Between people, as well as life and death at a more macro level, reinterprets the new generation of American "on the road". There is a similar feeling to Kelly Rechard. Maybe this is the common vision of sensitive and gentle female directors. They follow a certain period of time. From the perspective of the story, it may be calmer and stranger, but from the protagonist From a personal perspective, the emotional core that overflows in time has profound power, which will make people repeatedly savor those lonely moments and wandering on the road. Although Zhao Ting was born in mainland China, her later identity was based more on the American living environment. This is a personal love for cultural choices. I am selfish, I definitely want to see Zhao Ting be able to make some movies with Chinese themes, but This is a selfish idea, respecting the meaning of all cultures, and respecting everyone's right to freely choose their love for culture. Looking forward to Zhao Ting’s commercial film

  • Gracie 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    There is a sense of picture, but no resonance. To put it bluntly, it may not really be my favorite type. It is quite spectacular to watch these scenes along the way.

Nomadland quotes

  • Linda: Before I moved into this squeeze inn, I was out looking for work and putting in applications. 2008, and it was just tough. I got to a really really low point. And I thought about suicide. And I decided I was gonna go buy a bottle of booze, turn on the propane stove, and I was gonna drink that booze until I'm passed out. And if I woke up, I was gonna light a cigarette and I was gonna blow us all up. And I looked at my two sweet little trusting dogs, my Cocker Spaniel and my little Toy Poodle. And I... I just couldn't do that to them. And I thought, well, I can't do that to me either. So I was getting close to 62 and I went online to look at my social security benefits. It said $550. Fern, I have worked my whole life. I've worked since I was 12 years old. Raised two daughters. I couldn't believe it. So I'm online and I find Bob Wells' cheap RV living. I could live in a RV. Travel. And not have to work for the rest of my life.

  • Swankie: I'm gonna be 75 this year. I think I've lived a pretty good life. I've seen some really neat things kayaking all of those places. And... You know, like a moose in the wild. A moose family on the river in Idaho and big white pelicans landed just six feet over my kayak on a lake in Colorado. Or... Come around a bin, was a cliff and find hundreds and hundreds of swallow nests on the wall of the cliff. And the swallows flying all around and reflecting in the water. So it looks like I'm flying with the swallows and they're under me, and over me, and all around me. And little babies are hatching out, and eggshells are falling out of the nest, landing on the water and floating on the water. These little white shells. That was like, it's just so awesome. I felt like I've done enough. My life was complete. If I died right then, at that moment, would be perfectly fine.