Nomadland Comments

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dayana 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Of course, it's easy to accuse Zhao Ting's adaptation of being too romantic, but the film itself doesn't necessarily assume sociological responsibility. In terms of aesthetics, this hundred minutes of freehand brushwork is both silent and eloquent. Those painful, embarrassing, embarrassing, and humiliating are both omitted and surpassed. Dongpo and Foyin, what is in the stomach and what is in the...

  • Alexis 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    "U.S. bottom life" is so publicized, it's actually just a shell. It's a very personal story. It tells about loneliness, choice, escape, and everyone has a reason for having to be on the road. There are probably too many here. Director's own experience. I don't know why I think of Brooklyn, this can't be considered a story of a stranger, or for some people, the world is a foreign country, and for me, who left home at 18, seeking my peace of mind It will always be the theme of life, but when I...

  • Sedrick 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Full of lies. You know what I'm talking...

  • Margarita 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    What a beautiful lonely movie. After Fern's husband died, she lived in the past. Even if Dave offered her a "stable" life several times, she struggled and finally couldn't accept it. The most beautiful is the sonnet she reads her wedding speech in the sunset—shall I compare thee to the summer's day... The last is also beautiful "dedicated to the ones who had to depart, see you down the road". Very empathetic and after watching the movie I got stuck in (probably related to my recent state of...

  • Brody 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Wandering, loneliness, and exile do not lead to happiness, to utopia. Just like the classic proposition in philosophy - does free will really exist? Our lives are not entirely our own choices, but also the result of circumstances and reality. Going into a life of wandering, loneliness and exile has nothing to do with freedom, but you must face it firmly, even if it is pitiful in the eyes of others, even like a clown in...

  • Eddie 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    With the intertext at the beginning and the end, as well as the interspersed amazon scenes, Zhao Ting outlines the decline of traditional manufacturing and the towns it breeds under the development of globalization and emerging industries in a few strokes. At the same time, the dialogue between characters also reflects the current unemployment and pension issues. When home is erased from paper, its definition also changes from a fixed base to a mobile car. It's not about the stories of...

  • Angelina 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    How does it feel. To be on your own. With no direction home. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling...

  • Alta 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    The last time I saw a movie that I couldn't stop crying while watching was "The Rebirth". It's so immersive to watch this movie at this age. The sense of loneliness that penetrates my chest is so empty, so broad, and so meticulous. Like the stardust mentioned in the movie. The contemporary society, which seems to be infinitely possible, compresses the possibility into a line at the edge of existence. Definitely not out of poverty, sickness, or whatever, that's how Fern chose to live, a very...

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  • Evalyn 2022-04-23 07:02:01

    Stable Love

    It suddenly occurred to me that if a person chooses to become an artist, this may be the epitome of her future life. The same wandering, actively choose a kind of closed and lonely life. This background is why she is afraid of establishing a stable emotional connection with people, and losing is...

  • Allan 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    Round herders

    The Chinese translation of this film is a complete disaster, which seems to give you a kind of "this film is going to criticize the American bourgeoisie for sucking blood" or "the life of the poor people excluded by society". No, you won't see these. , That's not what this film is going to talk...

Nomadland quotes

  • 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.

  • Fern: Bo never knew his parents, and we never had kids. If I didn't stay, if I left, it would be like he never existed. I couldn't pack up and move on. He loved Empire. He loved his work so much. He loved being there, everybody loved him. So I stayed. Same town, same house. Just like my dad used to say: "What's remembered, lives." I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering, Bob.