May we grow old

Daron 2022-03-22 09:01:47

The heart is like being pressed against a big rock. I used to watch "The Lady in the Truck" and I thought that I might be living in that old age. Today, when I watch "Nowhere", I am very clear that I don't want this ending. From a fearless female literary youth to an ordinary woman who has integrated into the secular life, maybe it has changed over the years, but I am not a character in a bright story, and I admit that I have no guts.

I stayed with my parents for a whole year last year. I went through a lot in that year, including physical pain and mental torture. I grew two gray hairs and had a crack in my heart. But at the same time I am more accommodating, more lenient, and more indifferent than before. I began to think that it is good that people can live a normal and ordinary life.

What is the state of a woman in her 60s who has a painful situation, as if the pressure accumulated in her life can completely overwhelm a person at a certain moment. I remembered a neighbor aunt in Zhuhai. No one welcomed her as a guest. She sat there talking to herself, pouring out her dissatisfaction with her family and life and comforting herself. She was incoherent and nervous chattering, and she did not care about others The cold eyes, as if life has come to this day, all emotions must be revealed.

There is a 50-year-old aunt on Douyin who is traveling by car. She uses short videos to record her psychological feelings and the scenery along the way. She travels to escape from her husband who doesn't love her, and endures for her daughter for many years. Now she can finally enjoy her life and treat her on the road. It's a relief.

"A Land of Nowhere" seems to be about the helplessness of life. The RV keeps moving on the road, encountering different scenery, doing different jobs, and meeting different people. The theme has not changed. Finn, who loves her deceased husband, cancer sisters who like to collect stones, and the old man who is given to black hair by the white-haired man. They keep saying goodbye to different people, but because they are still on the road, so, there is no final goodbye, right?

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Extended Reading
  • Randi 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    Although the arrow of the body points forward, the arrow of the soul points forward. How the people who are left get along with them for the rest of their lives.

  • Destiney 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    The imaging technology is very good, but I am disappointed with the direction of the focus of the story. I am not satisfied with presenting odd jobs in the super-capital world, and disused factories covered in volcanic ash. The predicament of the elderly was photographed as a choice with a layer of pastoral filters. But seeing Sister Cohen lying naked in the clear spring, facing the world alone, and seeing the body of an aging female that has nothing to do with sex, clean and nothing, touched by that kind of loneliness, and shed tears in that scene.

Nomadland quotes

  • Merle: I worked for corporate America, you know, for 20 years. My friend Bill worked for the same company. And... He had liver failure. A week before he was due to retire, HR called him in hospice and said, you know, let's talk about your retirement. And he died 10 days later, having never been able to take that sailboat that he bought out of his driveway. And he missed out on everything. Then he told me before he died, just don't waste any time, girl. Don't waste any time. So I retired as soon as I could. I didn't want my sailboat to be in the driveway when I died. So... yeah. And it's not. My sailboat is out here in the desert.

  • Fern: What's remembered, lives.