The end credits of "Nowhere" pays tribute to all who "have to hit the road". It expresses the extreme freedom and unspeakable bitterness of wandering life. It's a pity that the wandering Sanmao didn't see the movie, and always remembers that she was extremely angry because of the change of the lyrics of the olive tree.
"Wandering, for the birds flying in the sky, for the clear stream in the mountains, and for the broad grassland." Seeing that the wandering life was beautified by the lyrics, she said, "I wander because of the last resort, if you wander for the grassland and the stream , I advise you not to go!"
When I was young, I read Sanmao, and I was indeed attracted by the unknown romance of the Sahara, so this problem has been troubled for many years, and Sanmao has not explained why wandering is a last resort.
Sanmao also has a well-known classic quote: "If there is an afterlife, I will be a tree, very silent and very proud. Never rely on, never seek."
Flowers, plants and trees do not have free will, and therefore do not have the trouble of choice. They grow wherever they are born, and they will not flee when the fire comes. But in this life, Sanmao, as Sartre said, can never get rid of freedom, and Fern in "Nowhere to Be" is also faced with a choice. When Fern came to the house of Dave, who used to be a homeless person, and was asked by Dave to stay and live together, she hesitated. Dave has just embraced his grandson and is enjoying his family, and the family welcomes her as part of the family. But when she woke up early in the morning from this strange house, looking at the quiet stroller, spacious kitchen and neat dishes, she ran away. Fern, who did not and did not want to come out of his own story, could not pick up a new life script, which had no trace of her.
On the way of wandering, someone said that her husband's death left her with a deep wound. She looked at the wedding ring that she never took off and said calmly, "This wound is on me." She quoted from her wedding The poems are sent to the homeless youth who wrote love letters and did not respond. When she recited poems in the wilderness, the lover who was gentler than summer shone in her eyes. In this moment, you literally feel that Fern is alive and free, in her own way. No one likes to eat, drink and Lazard all in a broken car, but she is willing to suffer from the wandering life, driven by the freedom that cannot be escaped, not for the birds flying in the sky and the wide grassland, but for the vastness and loneliness of nature , can pretend to be her real me. Loneliness is like a pair of broken boots that fit.
"New Year is a Good Time"
New Years is a good time,
Leave my loneliness in the old year.
My loneliness has been leathered like a pair of work boots
My dog bites it and shakes it up and down,
chewing it day and night in my front yard,
rainy, sunny, snowy, windy
I'm all barefoot, thinking about my poems,
Will look at my dirty shoes through the window.
But my happiness depends so much on these boots.
at the end of each day
When I'm in my seat listening to a Mexican guitar sing
I'll look at my boots with admiration:
The long road we traveled together,
All the dope and whisky houses we visited together,
When the Mexican singer wailed his pain,
I smile at my boots,
comprehend his every note,
And strangers,
They saw boots rocking back and forth on my feet
Just like the rhythm of that song, see it
The boots covered with tooth marks and the soles that wear out quickly.
I wear these boots all the time because they fit so well
I need them too,
Especially when I have such a strong love,
Walking on a road full of rocks,
When flowers despise everything because of their love for the sun,
Break those stones.
Author / [US] Jimmy Santiago Barca
Translation / Light Zhu
People are often in pain and fear because of their freedom, but there is still a steady stream of vitality in their hearts, just like flowers, because of the love of sunlight, they break through stones. I would like to dedicate this article to all those who follow the freedom of their hearts and live bravely.
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