I almost cried when Swankie sent that video of swallows with terrible resolution.
Before embarking on the path of Wei Guangzheng law school, I studied a three-year liberal arts degree. Because it is a school famous for liberalism, all kinds of people gather here: there is a couple of famous professors. The male was a priest and the female was a nun. There are so many gays, Les, transgender people, all kinds of people who are doubtful about their identity...Beyond that environment, even in a colorful place like the United States, many people will be considered non-mainstream. , But they are really wonderful.
The first roommate in my school dormitory was a 45-year-old white woman with gray hair and a small shrine in the room. She said that she had no parents since she was a child. When she was 20 years old, she worked as a secretary at Merrill Lynch in New York and made a lot of money, but she hated that culture-she was once criticized for walking with her legs too wide. "That's because I skipped ballet!" she said bitterly. Later she left New York and came here to study. She is always very poor and almost never eats out. Probably all the money she earns as a secretary has been spent. She went to the cheapest supermarket and bought back vegetables, fruits and meat on a temporary discount, as well as fair trade tea and coffee. Of course there are a lot of premiums for those things, but she doesn't care, just like she never eats out, but if she eats out, she must give a 25% tip.
I used to think that Americans are like this, but later found out that it is not. There is only one type of Americans like this, such as Fern in the movie. The background of Empire’s total failure and the pain of losing a loved one are of course heavy. But for life, it is a past. In this role, it is almost impossible to judge whether Fern, who lost Bob, would follow the same path if Empire was not abandoned, or whether they would live in van together if Bob did not die. Of course, these conditions are established: the past that cannot be turned back, the pain of losing a loved one, and the reality of poverty. But I think these are neither sufficient nor necessary conditions for the heroine’s life choices, otherwise she will go with Linda May or live with Dave and his family, especially for the former. The easiest and least paid option is far simpler than compromising with your sister and returning to family life.
This is what I think Nomadland aims to do the most. The whole movie is full of sad but not sad atmosphere. An increase of one point is sensational, and a decrease of one point will not touch people's hearts. After reading it, I didn't even feel heavy, but like meeting an old friend, sharing real laughs and tears with each other. To translate the title of this movie into "A Place of Nowhere" is actually a middle-class perspective to speculate on the lives of this group of people, full of unnecessary value judgments.
It was like trying to plug Fern into her sister's house.
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