Nomadland Comments

  • Kaya 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    The dialectics of nomadism and settlement. The irony is that nomads are the least willing to accept change. They are attached to abandoned homes, migrating round and round along fixed routes, and living in the past. Instead, the settlers are calm about change. If you can adapt to others to accept changes and start a new life, you will be resettled under the eaves like David, who the hostess...

  • Simeon 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    The first Chinese female director won the Golden Lion...

  • Marcella 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    Zhao Ting showed off her superb skills in fiddle with the audience. When the film made the audience just immersed in the emotion of harmony between man and nature, she had to close the car door to return to reality. This is just like the heroine insisted on the choice. Should be just a touch of monochrome in...

  • Lawrence 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    The elephant is invisible and extremely simple and moving. From Zhao Ting's lens, she can feel her love for her subject. Not only is the modern gypsy life with a RV home, but also the spiritual world of American road culture: there is no formal farewell, and you will always see you on the road. The last scene of the movie is exactly what I have been doing recently. To end 2020 with such a movie, I can’t find other languages ​​besides...

  • Jayme 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    "I am 75 years old this year, and I think I have had a pretty good life in my life. I have seen many beautiful things while kayaking around. On the river in Idaho, I have seen a family of elk. On a lake in Colorado, a big white pelican landed in front of my kayak. After a bend, there was a cliff there. I saw hundreds of swallows resting on the cliff and swallows flying in the air. , And with the reflection of the river water, it looked like I was also flying, and swallows were flying around me,...

  • Estell 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    Memories are an endless...

  • Kiley 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    I can better understand Paco’s phrase "it will naturally be feminist if you care enough for...

  • Malachi 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    It's not that no family loves her, it's not that no friends love her, or the unrestrained wandering life that makes her yearning, but that her heart has nowhere to rest after the love in her heart disappears into this world, so she has to be forced to go on the road. . Desolation, loneliness, stubbornness, powerlessness, and sadness drift from this end of the road to the distance. . . Zhao Ting described the inner state of the characters very well. The answer seemed to be given at the beginning...

  • Jamir 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    If there is no money, old age is a...

  • Idella 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    People who are burdened with pain and exiled from society use "nomadism" as a confrontation between individuals and their destiny. The sentence "I'll see you down the road" is full of too much loneliness, briefly connecting the travellers in a hurry, and witnessing them running on their respective roads without hesitation. The western United States under Zhao Ting's lens has an unspeakable...

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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.