Life is a long journey. We always think we are reaching the destination, but in fact we are just on the road until the end of life. The RV life that wanders like a nomad is full of roads, and comes from nature, crowds, and loneliness. In the roughness of reality and poetic sadness, one can appreciate the infinity of nature and the end of life, watch the rotation of the seasons and the alternation of the sun and the moon, and lament the impermanence of life. There is no segmented progression of traditional movies, it is flat, like watching a lifetime, but can only sigh: sadness, loneliness. The last time I saw this kind of sad poetry was "landscape in the fog", the unquenchable sadness and loneliness were mixed with invasion. Concerning about the group, thinking about society, interpreting life, following the camera through the western world, the sense of emptiness in the west under a wide angle, that kind of desolation, loneliness, sadness, and long echoes. Without a thrilling or twisty plot, the film's immersive loneliness permeates viewers in front of the screen.
Nomadland&Homeless
Nomadland translates to nomadic land. Homeless means homeless. "It's just homelessness, not homelessness." The concept of home is far from the narrowness of a house, but when people interpret the concept of a house, it is home, just like people say, Homeless. The development of human beings from the earliest group living to the solitary living of individuals is the evolution of human beings, but it is also a kind of loss. The abstraction of the home, which has lost the sense of group, has gained the figuration of the individualistic house. Nowadays, people spend their whole life savings and debts, just to find a stable "home" in order to live in a house they can't afford. A marriage without a house is unhappy, and a life without a house is pitiful... ... This is not the status quo in America, it is the status quo in contemporary society. Spanning more than half the world, the resonance of this social status quo is worth pondering.
freedom & duty
Aristotle discusses in ethics: How should a man live his life?
"My social benefits are only $550, I've worked my whole life, I've been working since I was 12, I've had two daughters, and if I live in an RV, I can travel, and I don't have to work for the rest of my life." The impact is too great, and a lifetime of duty in the system will be nothing in the end. "I have seen too much in this life, and my life is complete." What is the concept of freedom? Is it the body or the mind? How much does it take to see a complete life? Is man's duty a social duty or self-satisfaction?
However, human beings are a huge contradictory body. They are not satisfied with the status quo but do not want to or cannot get rid of the status quo. Day after day in great dissatisfaction, until a certain age is like a scalper without thinking, dying of exhaustion or illness.
life and death
The reality is, live.
life, life. Everything that seems alive.
False, ideal, in fact dead.
The ideal state of man must be death, without pain, without memory, without grief. But more often we are living, suffering, struggling, and sad. Even in order not to let others forget the existence of their lover, and struggling to live. Death, like darkness, loses all five senses. But the meaning of life is the five senses, reunion and goodbye. I often feel that life is sad, because I have to constantly experience reunion and parting in my heart, and there is no one who is always by my side. Even if we can see each other again, we will still say goodbye, and the cycle goes on and on. It was a lonely journey until it came to an end. In the body, you have to experience physical pain, the destruction of the system, the impermanence of the world...
But there are always people who still rush for various reasons, such a sad codeword. "Dedicated to those who have to be on the road" Maybe see you again, maybe never.
(Compared to many artificial films made in China, this film shocked me far more than a little bit. Many people make literary films full of philosophy, symbols and deep interpretations, and it is almost an act of art to put a fart. I think the story is always at the heart of the film. It's easy to understand, but there's art that can be read everywhere.)
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