I thought it was just physical exhaustion along the way, but I didn't expect to be looking for spiritual redemption

Eveline 2022-04-22 07:01:24

2020, USA, Director: ~~. (The reason why I can't say my name is because I'm afraid of being caught)

In the first ten minutes, a large amount of information poured in. A woman in her 50s was unemployed and drove her small RV to her new workplace "Amazon Factory" to work, dealing with new colleagues, and she was still huddled in the car. On the other hand, my friends also have a prejudice against this kind of living state.

The first ten minutes gave me the kind of quick fragmentary explanation of a literary film. It felt a bit like a Taiwanese literary film. The editing method was very quick, and it was very fast. "There is also a similar shadow~

Like this kind of literary style film, the story and lines determine his height and offline. There are many interesting lines in this film.

"I'm not homeless, I just don't have a house to live in. The two are different."

"Home, is a word in your heart, or a place that exists in your heart."

When I see more than 40 minutes, I can appreciate the feeling of "coldness" and "coolness" in the film, even when singing and dancing, it is more "lonely".

The director may like landscape photography. Many of the shots throughout the film are good-looking poster pictures. Many times, they will shoot the sunset, and then use the cool color of purple as the main color, which represents "silence" and a calm view of the world. In the form of photography, there is still a very deliberate feeling, "Let a lot of things look like that, so that they look good when photographed." That kind of meaning.

Even if it is the support of American Hollywood movies, it still has to return to life after the curtain ends.

The heroine drove the RV through many places. As she walked through the scenes with the heroine, she also saw different things in their group. They also have joys and sorrows, and have different enjoyment and friendship with us. Different problems in ordinary life feel very three-dimensional.

I thought the opening chapter was about the miserable life of a heroine in a financial crisis environment, but as the camera slowly advanced, it seemed that she saw her soul. It was as if I was being pulled back into my own body again.

The story is not strong, but it feels very strong.

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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.