Why there is nowhere for home

Scarlett 2021-12-27 08:01:50

"What do you want? I want people to stop being bastards."

At the beginning of the movie, a very mournful heroine image was cast, coupled with a very mournful Britpop, and the tone of the whole story was so set. After that, we saw all kinds of messy daily routines of the heroine: shit in front of the yard, small advertisements on the doorknob, unsatisfactory work, and always being cut in line in the supermarket... When you feel that the plot is so gloomy When his life story was developing, a burglary suddenly changed the style of the film.

The hostess Ruth doesn't like to lock the door. This habit also gave the theft an opportunity and became an excuse for the police to prevaricate her. So relying on a footprint and a GPS location, she began to find the stolen items on her own. Ruth's existence is actually like a social moral benchmark. She lives in this society where everything is not going well and people are almost indifferent, but she is not reconciled to this social state.

Fortunately, in a society where there is nowhere to be a home, she met Tony, a person who had her own beliefs and was dissatisfied with the various bastards in this society like her. I think that when you are doing things that are incomprehensible in the eyes of others, it is the happiest thing to have someone beside you who silently support you anyway.

In many cases, inaction is the source of all tragedies.

The father's inaction led to a tragic ending for his son; the police's inaction led to more serious crimes. Formally, because living in this society with too many inactions, too many times have to be in a situation where no one can rely on it, people have the idea of ​​nowhere to be a home.

From the two tracking the stolen items, to the discovery of a serial criminal gang, to an almost absurd bloody and violent gunfight, and finally to the woods to escape. The director cleverly blended the elements of various genres together, with a gloomy but appropriate soundtrack, and controlled the rhythm of the whole film very well.

While telling the story, the film not only discusses the shortcomings of this society with us, but also does not forget the topic of life and death with emotion. Although sometimes we don't live well, even if there are moments when we don't want to live, we dare not die. Finding an inner sustenance and continuing to live may be the way to have a home.

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I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. quotes

  • Angie: Just be gentle with yourself, all right? You got all the time in the world.

    Ruth: I don't know what that means.

    Angie: Yeah, it's just something people say.

  • [last lines]

    Tony: [arguing at the grill] These are looking good.

    Dan: You don't need to push...

    Tony: Nah, you're supposed to get the... the juice out of them.

    Dan: No, no, no, you *want* the juice in the burger.

    Tony: Gotta squash 'em down.

    Dan: You wanna flip...?

    Tony: No, these are... I'm telling you, these are gonna be perfect.