Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
#31
|
||
|
||
I agree with another poster, this was not a feel good movie seeing the world in an. RV. She started tome Empire, NV when her husband died and the US Gypsum plant closed. She went from location to location in her van wherever work was available. It was not a feel good movie, but an honest assessment of how some seniors have to live.
|
|
#32
|
||
|
||
Bravo! A real man!
|
#33
|
||
|
||
Thanks for sharing those terrific memories!
|
#34
|
||
|
||
Quote:
|
#35
|
||
|
||
Quote:
I had a friend whose mother deserted the family and took off in a small camper van. She would come back very occasionally to visit her adult daughters, but could not bring herself to stay. It was very sad. She came to our house with her daughter for Thanksgiving dinner one year, having taken on a pseudonym, and talked about how good it was to be able to get away from the world around her by just crawling into her van. I couldn't decide whether to believe her or think she was talking to herself. She had no health insurance and eventually the authorities found her van at a Walmart with her inside, having died from cancer. The daughters had to go clean out the van and dispose of it. I guess that's why I found the movie so depressing. No friends to rely on, and in Francis Gormand's case, no family at all. I'm left wondering... did she care about that? What was going on that she couldn't accept the friendships that were offered to her for more than a little while at a time. The movie left me very sad.
__________________
It's harder to hate close up. |
#36
|
||
|
||
Quote:
I had a friend whose mother deserted the family and took off in a small camper van. She would come back very occasionally to visit her adult daughters, but could not bring herself to stay. It was very sad. She came to our house with her daughter for Thanksgiving dinner one year, having taken on a pseudonym, and talked about how good it was to be able to get away from the world around her by just crawling into her van. I couldn't decide whether to believe her or think she was talking to herself. She had no health insurance and eventually the authorities found her van at a Walmart with her inside, having died from cancer. The daughters had to go clean out the van and dispose of it. I guess that's why I found the movie so depressing. No friends to rely on, and in Francis McDormand's case, no family at all. I'm left wondering... did she care about that? What was going on that she couldn't accept the friendships that were offered to her for more than a little while at a time. The movie left me very sad.
__________________
It's harder to hate close up. |
#37
|
||
|
||
Quote:
Cheap RV Living.com-Home |
#38
|
||
|
||
Agreed....not a Hallmark Movie by any stretch of the imagination
|
#39
|
||
|
||
I don't like to go to bed sad.
__________________
It's harder to hate close up. |
#40
|
||
|
||
I don't either. In fact at my age, I have enough dark thoughts and worries that come unbidden. I try to avoid sad movies.
Yesterday on this forum I was called an "old cow". I don't understand the world at all anymore.
__________________
It is better to laugh than to cry. |
#41
|
||
|
||
Quote:
It’s a shame that some feel the need to judge and call people names. |
#42
|
||
|
||
Don’t read the book.
The employment situations were not nearly as pleasant as portrayed in the movie. I read the first two chapters and that was enough. |
#43
|
||
|
||
I read the whole book just after it was published. The jobs were brutal at Amazon as well as at other employers.
__________________
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine |
#44
|
||
|
||
Stream Nomadland on Hulu | Hulu.com
I will probably see this sometime this week on Hulu if it is still available. Probably with ads though and a lot of them. |
#45
|
||
|
||
I don’t like sad movies myself, there is enough suffering already, but during the pandemic it kind of makes sense.
Tried to find who said that Gracie. Must have been an oik. |
Closed Thread |
|
|