Passing by

Angel 2021-12-03 08:01:42

I can’t feel the emotion it should provide, nor can I see the connections of other deeper things. I think its fragmented images and flat expressions are a kind of accumulation that will explode at a certain moment, but this The moment did not appear, everything it showed was raw and meaningless, which actually puzzled me-can I blame a movie for lacking more primitive driving force? In other words, is it a misstep or negligence to only present the image itself? Maybe it is, maybe it's not. Whatever the chaos, "A Place of Nowhere" is terribly pale, especially when it tries to incite the audience with its indiscriminate piano strings and desolate natural landscapes, what emotions can you incitement? Woolen cloth? And those images can never really become a part of the movie like the black water in "Leviathan". It lacks weight and lacks realism. Too often I feel strongly that I am not there, just passing by.

I also don't like the phrase "to all those who have to go on the road". Everything shown in the movie tells me that the director didn't really see the pain of those people, but regarded it as some kind of redemption. Instead of getting close to anything, she romanticized what she saw in a self-assertive manner. This person was hopelessly arrogant.

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  • Aidan 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    It's not difficult to say, but it's a movie that's simple but hard to control. I think this control lies in focusing on nothing else. The director is also immersed in such a journey. It seems that there is a natural force to help her show it, which is natural and beautiful. Great control over the photography, clever use of the soundtrack, and also controlling the meaning thing, not meaning for the sake of meaning, and McDormand's performance is brilliant, she just maintains herself, this and this The film is shot in the same way, that is, keep, the verse says "all beautiful images will inevitably fade", but McDormand's really restrained performance has reached a certain buffer, she is very good at it, there is no glamorous relaxation, There is no exquisite tension, she just deduces a kind of on the road, everything is moving forward or backward, she also maintains herself and speed, even in the last crying scene, it is only a slight panting. Xie Lingyun, a generation of landscape poets, once had a difficult and classic famous sentence "The lonely traveler is hurt, and the lonely traveler is bitter", which is probably the heart of the movie I saw.

  • Braden 2021-12-03 08:01:42

    The whole movie seems to have happened a lot, but in fact nothing happened, the beginning and the end are still the same.

Nomadland quotes

  • Carol: I see that you have this ring. Are you married?

    Fern: I am, but my husband died.

    Carol: And so...

    Fern: I'm not gonna take that off.

    Carol: That ring is a circle and it never ends. And that means that your love never ends. And you may not be able to take it off, if you tried.

    Fern: I don't think I can.

  • Dave: Hey, find anything?

    Fern: ROCKS!