To stray, or not to stray, that is the question.

Kenyatta 2022-03-23 09:03:10

This is the true sense of lawless wandering, the end is the nothingness of the body.

For MONA, bread can be eaten occasionally, and money can be earned occasionally, but freedom is elusive. MONA, who was educated and a secretary, finally chose to be a wanderer who really had nothing, to resist reality and material the most without hesitation, to put aside all material forms, and to pursue the ultimate freedom of life. Her path and her body were transformed into Ultimate nothingness.

We have all clamored to be wandering, and we have traveled the world with a bag, but in the end we all returned to reality, with bread and money as the standard of success, freedom and ideals are enshrined on a high altar to pay homage to the lost youth . We are very excited about taking civil servant exams and getting promotions and salary increases. We are excited to plan a happy free exercise with the money we have saved. This is considered to be close to the extreme of vagrancy.

We are all lay people who pursue a well-off life in a group society. We are entangled by various emotions and materials. We cannot leave the old without the young. The high-level behavior of wandering is worshipped. In the middle of the night, I secretly held a Kerouac book and sighed. The next day, I was still ready to throw myself into the process of urbanization, and everyone went to a well-off life together.

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  • Ericka 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The works of Varda, whose techniques are consummate. My personal favorite is the intersection with the philosopher and the Tunisian, where the capital-poor nihilist ends up dying. She used to be confident, happy and fearful, and hoped for stability after wandering. We seem to know her a little bit, but we don't seem to know her at all. In our eyes, she is just a corpse without an identity.

  • Ken 2022-03-15 09:01:07

    1985 Venice Golden Lion Award. A pure wanderer, a woman who is always on the road, would rather live briefly and freely than be integrated into the discipline of the system. Varda used pseudo-documentary methods and [Citizen Kane]'s onion-peeling multi-perspective interviews to piece together the life fragments of the homeless woman, and sometimes placed her on the edge of the frame. In the end, we can’t really understand the inner world of the heroine. She is more like the incarnation of an actor pursuing pure freedom. Although she can’t be accepted by the viewers empathetically, she constantly asks hypocrisy and the huge society. Snare. In the flashback narrative, the characters often break the fourth wall, further strengthening the film's alienation effect. It is a typical New Wave imaging strategy to induce reflection, rather than make people identify. (8.5/10)

Vagabond quotes

  • la platonologne Mme Landier: Why did you drop out?

    Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi: Champagne on the road's better!

  • les Bergers: She blew in like the wind. No plans, no goals... No wishes, no wants... We suggested things to her. She didn't want to do a thing. Wandering? That's withering. By proving she's useless, she helps a system she rejects. It's not wandering, it's withering.