“Nomadland”, by director Chloé Zhao ****, Into the Wild, and taking shower in a Honda, living in a car for a year

 Watched  “Nomadland”, by director Chloé Zhao ***half  

There is something of the original pioneer or migrant spirit of the van life people.  You see how people work at Amazon warehouse, short ordre cook, park attendant, etc.  Film is v gentle sensitive.  But after watching this, I am totally un-interested in living in a van.  Its totally not attractive to me.   The story is about as thorough as it could go.  

These are v nice people, but what could you do when you are in a subsistance way of life?  Everything has a context, if your context is like this, what could possibly happen?  There is no new thing coming in, how could new things come to / happen to the characters?

The only thing that i could think of to make the film one step more attractive maybe is the glam visuals, w superb desert background, maybe that could be something v dramatic.  But I also appreciate the realist way of presenting what van life is... bucket loo, replacing damaged tires, owning v little things and still has to keep on recycling making the van life less cluttered and lighter.  

I saw youtube of a v pretty girl showing how to live in a Honda, w snow outside, how to take shower.  A v pretty girl, whats the attractiveness of this challenge?  It is fun to do a challenge, but why?  In North America, w the intelligence that she has, why do it?  It is interesting to see.  Kind of modern pioneering.  

Another film a little bit along the nomad theme is a movie about a rich boy wanting to live in wilderness - he lived in a school bus, a kind of hobo (chic-romantic )style - and died from eating poisonous fruit. (from several years ago also a real life story made into a movie)  It is also about wanting, preferring choosing to live in a free wilderness life, being free.  

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After looking into the film "Into the Wild" - I think all stories have specific details.  We cannot understand how others think if we dont know their context. By respect of his decisions, I should not talk more than I know.

https://www.today.com/popculture/author-revisits-how-wild-subject-died-alaskan-bus-8C11141443

McCandless, of course, was the 24-year-old subject of the Jon Krakauer best-selling book "Into the Wild," which later became a 2007 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIUxM2X6uZw&list=PLk34SXGN1ETMv7VOMQLOBff2S7u-dHCbz

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I have watched the documentary, and reminds me of all the turmoil all families goes through.  I know of friends whose father has several wives, even though its an open knowledge - its always a source of unlimited sadness.

Another case of a famous architect whose son made a film on his father.  Louis Kahn, also sadness of the children.  Life is not only about happiness of course, in spite of the sadness there could always be great things achieved in parallel.

What do I know? 

Old culture, new culture. "Demain et tous les autres jours 2017"***half

 Conversation

"Well, I've always felt the sadness and weight of the Chinese culture and history. I say this only from a personal, sensory perspective. I've been told I'm an old soul, which of course, I take with a grain of salt. It's possible somehow some form of energy was passed onto me as a child. " 

Chinese culture is definitely an old culture - we see it everywhere.

A friend of mine teaches children in America - online - from china how to write poems in Chinese.  She herself is a poet trained in translations in NYC, funny thing is these children write poems that are kind of adult simply because of the Chinese language of the ready made words/phrases. (=Cheng Yu)

And the sentiment expressed somehow is not "child" innocence but kind of older person w self reflection queries.  I will find an example to show you later

So i thought, their parents wrote it for them ... but probably not afterall.  Anyway not v child like to me.

I saw a French movie called "Demain et tous les autres jours"***half 

 Demain et tous les autres jours est un film réalisé par Noémie Lvovsky avec Luce Rodriguez, Noémie Lvovsky ...2017  

https://www.unifrance.org/film/40850/demain-et-tous-les-autres-jours

It opens with a yg girl called into the teachers office w her mom, she holds her moms hand tightly.  Teacher asked, your daughter seem to not play w other childrens... she wants to know whats happening at home by just chatting; the mother answered but she was more worried about her usage of a sentence, the yg girl reassures her mother that yes she could say that that way.  Teacher understood that its the child who is morally supporting her mom who seemed a bit neurotic.  Then we see how it is at home, little girl buys the food, cooks it as best as she can, and somehow the mother set fire to the apartment etc.  We see the girl at school recess time, she sits by herself, does not play w the others... etc

near the end of the film, a v beautiful yg woman dresses simply neat and clean goes to see her mom at retirement home.  The older lady does not recognise her daughter, but she chats w her kindly.  Then after the visit the yg girls takes leave.  Always w clear wide eyes.

A country w old culture is able to make such a film, somebody somehow got money together to make such a film and its shown in regular cinema, not big box office, but it gets gd critique.

In new countries like america or hk where commercial films depend on many factors such as profitable or not etc, such a film will be much harder to be made.

Old countries have ties, new countries are based on escaping from old countries, new immigrants are the most energetic.  They want to make something of themselves given such a big opportunity all around.  The can-do society.

I saw a lot of footage on the singer Dimash, and hes from a kind of Asian culture.  Peoples commentaries say from India says, wow, his family is just like ours, same values same way of behavior between parent and sons etc etc

That is why he is not really your new Michael Jackson, not the same drive behind popstardom.  I think Michael Jackson had a much tougher time growing up the treatment of his father towards him as money tree etc.  Dimash family spoils him - says his grandmother/mother, he gets everything done for him.... etc Hes the treasure the diamond of the family.  His parents gave up their cultural head job to help him w the back end of the singing work.  etc etc

Thats the diff between old culture and new culture.

【Shenzhen Concert Full 】Dimash Kudaibergen Димаш Құдайбергенов D-Dynasty 2018.05.19【Fancam】

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEElxY2SEo

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