It is lucky not to understand, but helpless to understand.

Herminia 2022-04-23 07:02:01

I flipped through the comment section and some movie reviews and found that everyone basically focused on the bottom of the United States. But what I want to say is that this film doesn't really describe the life of the bottom people too much, because the people at the bottom really think about food instead of driving around in an RV. The real theme of this film seems to me to be describing the state of a person's life.

The protagonist fern, who embarked on a RV trip because of the bankruptcy of the company and the death of her husband, seems to have to go on the road because she can't find a job, but in my opinion, I think fern is fully capable of finding a longer-term job work, then rent a house or live with her sister. She chose to live in an RV because she couldn't find purpose in her life — the person she loved most died. She fell into a kind of confusion, so she drove the car to see all over the country. She had no harbor in her heart, so she was a wanderer wherever she went. She wanted to let the natural environment heal herself, but found that it was useless. He never forgot his husband, and never let go of her thoughts. This can be seen from the tenants she knows around her.

The RV organizer (I forgot the name) is because her child died, the big mom (sorry can't remember the name) is because she has cancer, everyone here has gone to embrace the world, but they don't care when they lose the most When things are important, the world has no meaning, and their lives are destined to live only in memories.

Hasn't fern hesitated? Of course, when she was invited to Thanksgiving, she woke up early the next morning and looked at the toys scattered around her, stroking the piano she played at dinner last night, sitting at the dinner table thinking about herself In the end, she still chose to go on the road. She came to the beach and felt the gust of wind. She thought of jumping and escaping from this meaningless world, but she couldn't take it anymore. I will live in memories for the rest of my life", because she can't do anything but memories.

Therefore, the beautiful pictures in the film, such as documentaries, show Fern's true emotions. He is lonely and overwhelmed. In life, he only has to live by, and finally die in silence.

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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.