I didn't expect it to be so American

Beth 2022-04-20 09:01:41

I originally thought it was the work of a Chinese director, the story or the plot, maybe I could think of, but I didn't expect it to be a very American movie.

A heroine looking for a job, living alone, road trips, gatherings of homeless...

It's just the low-light, cold scenery on the road that makes me especially like this movie.

And the rhythm is not too slow, which is what I love.

Thank you Director Zhao Ting for bringing this movie!

Thank you Director Zhao Ting for bringing this movie!

Thank you Director Zhao Ting for bringing this movie!

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  • 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.