What's remembered lives.

Lydia 2022-03-21 09:01:53

Nowhere to Go (2020)
8.2
2020 / United States / Drama / Zhao Ting / Frances McDormand David Strathairn

I actually don't fully understand Fern, I didn't love someone so hard, and I didn't remember so hard, but at the end of the film, I feel that my soul has been seized. It's like fern stops again and again, Departure, encounter, and departure, there must be farewells in life. Farewells come with pain.

But this film is not depicting the pain of parting and the ordeal of life, it is trying to convey another form of farewell-going on the road and experiencing it.

So, although I still don't fully identify with the homeless people in the film, I am full of respect.

Where will we meet again? Maybe that ta will really appear at some point...

Zhao Ting uses countless montages to connect the experiences of Fern. It's hard to say that during the journey, she healed others, or the accompanying travelers healed her. I would think, it's more about inner strength.

After her husband dies with Empyle's demise, the throbbing fire in Fern goes out (like several other homeless people in the film). But I still sensed that she had a strong heart—as she named her RV—vanguard.

So when I saw the old man who admired Fern and tried to keep him, I knew that Fern would leave.

This peace of mind is my hometown, and Fern's peace of mind is precisely in the journey of encountering, cuddling, and saying goodbye to individuals who have the same soul defect, carefully guarding that most precious memory, and slowly reconciling with it .

Reconciled? It seems that this question is not answered. But when I saw the end of the film, Fern was still walking between the winding snow-capped mountains and the endless road, I just felt the peace of mind, this was a force that hit me, gentle and great.

LET THE MUSIC RING.

Nomadland seems to be a vocabulary created by Zhao Ting, but at this moment I seem to understand a little - mad corresponds to peace. A land with peace, where the heart is, in the wilderness, in the depths of the wanderer's heart.

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Nomadland quotes

  • 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.