nowhere

Elmira 2022-04-21 09:02:04

Relatively speaking, Chinese people have the concept of roots, family, and clan. No matter where they go, there is always a concern, and it is also a place to go back. These are deep in the bone marrow, instilled in the blood since childhood, and our flesh and blood are constructed by him. On the other hand, Americans have much weaker concepts in this regard. On the other hand, they have nowhere to go back. On the road is the only thing they can do, perhaps to escape or perhaps to seek. As said at the end of the video, to those who have to hit the road. Nowhere is not only the body, but also the mind. There is a sentence that impressed me deeply. She said, without parents and children, when I left, Bo was like never existed. Yes, without her, he really does not exist, there is really no trace of a person, and I don't know if anyone will throw stones to commemorate her like her. Those who say she left everything and hit the road, I actually think they are no different from the so-called people who left everything and hit the road. It's just that there were some differences in their behavior from the start. In the film, the friends I see when I go back to my sister's house, all they do is to try to build a small environment or their own world for themselves, in order not to make themselves helpless and become helpless.

Besides, Chinese people are born with a place to depend on. This is a kind of luck, and it may be a burden at the same time. Spiritually, how do you find a place to rely on and rely on? Perhaps those indulgent and confused people are unable to find their own support because they have no place to rely on.

Everyone takes their own, or escapes, or seeks, and has to go on the road, so let's meet on the road.

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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.