I'm not homeless, I'm just houseless

Ewell 2022-04-21 09:02:04

Before I knew the background of the story, I kind of didn't understand what the movie was about for the first twenty minutes. Seeing Fern say nothing, his indifferent expression, and the background music, the whole atmosphere gave me a feeling of loneliness and depression! Then Fern's car broke down and she had to go to her sister to borrow money, and when they discussed Nomadland, there was still a big disagreement; later she also visited Dave, although his family was very warm to her and unanimously wanted her It was possible to settle down and live, but Fern felt so out of place and reserved to me that she eventually left. Afterwards, Fern was at the seaside, despite the dark clouds and the howling sea breeze, she smiled happily against the cold wind. At that moment, it seemed that my imprisoned heart was free, and I understood Fern's choice! At the end of the movie, she returns to the place where she and her husband lived, which has long been dilapidated, and there is no trace of their original life, and the movie ends in Fern's back. These lines are my favorites in the movie: -That ring is a circle. And it never ends. And that means that your love never ends. -What's remembered lives. -And out here, there's a lot of people our age. Inevitably, there's grief and loss. And a lot of'em don't get over it either. And that's okay.

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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.