May we grow old

Daron 2022-03-22 09:01:47

The heart is like being pressed against a big rock. I used to watch "The Lady in the Truck" and I thought that I might be living in that old age. Today, when I watch "Nowhere", I am very clear that I don't want this ending. From a fearless female literary youth to an ordinary woman who has integrated into the secular life, maybe it has changed over the years, but I am not a character in a bright story, and I admit that I have no guts.

I stayed with my parents for a whole year last year. I went through a lot in that year, including physical pain and mental torture. I grew two gray hairs and had a crack in my heart. But at the same time I am more accommodating, more lenient, and more indifferent than before. I began to think that it is good that people can live a normal and ordinary life.

What is the state of a woman in her 60s who has a painful situation, as if the pressure accumulated in her life can completely overwhelm a person at a certain moment. I remembered a neighbor aunt in Zhuhai. No one welcomed her as a guest. She sat there talking to herself, pouring out her dissatisfaction with her family and life and comforting herself. She was incoherent and nervous chattering, and she did not care about others The cold eyes, as if life has come to this day, all emotions must be revealed.

There is a 50-year-old aunt on Douyin who is traveling by car. She uses short videos to record her psychological feelings and the scenery along the way. She travels to escape from her husband who doesn't love her, and endures for her daughter for many years. Now she can finally enjoy her life and treat her on the road. It's a relief.

"A Land of Nowhere" seems to be about the helplessness of life. The RV keeps moving on the road, encountering different scenery, doing different jobs, and meeting different people. The theme has not changed. Finn, who loves her deceased husband, cancer sisters who like to collect stones, and the old man who is given to black hair by the white-haired man. They keep saying goodbye to different people, but because they are still on the road, so, there is no final goodbye, right?

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  • Franco 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Places like Empire, small towns created by humans and closed by humans, have become contemporary ruins, such as in the United States, in Japan, and of course in China, such as 404 City and some small mining towns. And "free people" like Fern are very rare in our dynasty. In the dual background of culture and policy, it is difficult for them to hide, and they will be more or less "supported". "Bo has never seen his parents, and we don't have children. If I leave, it will be as if he never existed." Life is meaningless and difficult, and it is a kind of existence to be a existence that has never existed." Rebellion", but there is no turning back for us. Don't sell misery, be miserable in your heart, and enjoy the truth of this life alone. In the end, human beings are inherently good, this is just a damn movie, so what?

  • Justyn 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    The RV is a ship, and the house is the land. It has been drifting on the sea for a long time and can no longer sleep peacefully on the land. Cultivation on the road, wandering in the world. Not abandoning everything and going on the road, but bringing everything forward, the plates from my father, the photos left by my husband, and the little bit of air in the middle of the rocks in the car to survive. I have seen the splendid scenery of the cliff flying with hundreds of swallows, and I have read the immortal poems with you, even if I live in a world without him, as long as I am on the road, I will not say goodbye.

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.