It's not a strong and vivid emotion, and the way of narration is calm. The camera has always followed Fern, but it has a sense of distance recorded from a third perspective. After watching it, you will feel so lonely, it doesn't matter whether it is a person or life, or It is a sparsely populated American Midwest plain landscape. There may be unexpected encounters and reunions, but people will die and leave, and many people will never be seen again, except how to prove that they once existed, so stubborn people will always be lonelier.
Fern met many people along the way, made short but profound connections with these people, and finally said goodbye one by one, alone, unable to rest in the warm room and had to rush back to her RV, it was the whole time. The most intense feeling of loneliness I experienced in the movie was not when she returned to Empyre to cry, not when she walked in the wilderness with no expression on her face, but when she almost ran away, she once had a warm home and Companion, then she has nothing, forced to wander, lonely, self-imposed, wandering on memory and survival instinct, so that family reunion, baby's palm, comfortable room these things can be called simple happiness, Instead, it became confusing, as if we could only keep warm by the fire and couldn't hold the warmth in our hands. She hadn't experienced those things for a long time, so she panicked, as Osamu Dazai said: cowards are afraid of happiness , touching cotton will be hurt, and sometimes hurt by happiness.
So she has to go.
She didn't dare to stay, also because she was afraid of forgetting what she thought should not be forgotten. This is actually a very contradictory thing. If you want to start a new life and move forward, you can't be limited by the wounds in the past, but "the wound is on me", it will remind her that someone once existed. I don't want to forget, it doesn't matter whether the ring is worn or not, but she has to forcibly engrave something in this way, over and over again, so painfully dependent on this wound that it has become consolation. Only with this wound can she feel safe.
So, stubborn people are lonelier
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