<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Zhao Ting's "Name of NoBody" won the Golden Globe Award, setting off a wave of attention to caravan nomads</h1>
Chinese filmmaker Zhao Ting's new work "The Land of No One" won the Best Director and Best Film in the Drama Category at the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Zhao Ting thus became the first Asian female director to win an award in 78 years of history, and her and the original story of "No Place" gradually surfaced.
Zhao Ting's stepmother, also a famous Chinese comedian Song Dandan, that night after Zhao Ting won the award, Song Dandan sent a blessing through Weibo for the first time, bluntly saying that Zhao Ting is a "family legend": "My baby: I really don't know how to congratulate you!" Each of your new awards is beyond our imagination and gives us great surprises. A Chinese girl who doesn't know English.
At the age of 16, I went abroad to study and chose a path that we never looked at but could only respect. Today, fighting for other people's strengths at the home of others, we have achieved such recognition and created such a record. You are the legend of our family, I believe your story will also inspire countless Chinese children~"
Born in Beijing, Zhao Ting, 38, has loved to draw comics, write her own novels and watch movies since she was a child. Some media said that Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's "Spring Break" had an enlightening impact on Zhao Ting. At the age of 14, her parents sent her to boarding school in London, England, and then traveled to the United States to receive film education, receiving a master's degree from the New York University Film School.
The Beijing News wrote that Zhao Ting, who was in her 20s at the time, felt lost and lost in New York, so she embarked on a journey to the west and began a journey to discover the United States. As a result, she specializes in documenting some groups in the United States that are not concerned by mainstream society, and uses film language to reveal the real world of the United States.
It is understood that her first work, "Brother Taught Me The Song", focuses on American Indians, and "Knight" tells about the Western cowboys of the United States. This time, "No Man's Land" shows a group of wanderers living and looking for work on the road in the United States in the 21st century, and after this work won the award, its original documentary novel "Nomadland" has once again become the focus, making people re-examine the current phenomenon of wanderers in western American society.
The Film No man is about the mental state of a group of nomads living on the road. The heroine Fern lost her job due to the Great Depression, and when she could not afford the burden of life, she lived in a family van, and from then on embarked on an unknown nomadic journey to the west while working. And Zhao Ting's depiction of the vast sky and scenery in the west in the lens also expresses loneliness and freedom, echoing the theme of the film.
Adapted from a documentary novel
Adapted from the documentary novel "Nomadland" completed by American journalist Jessica Bruder in 2017, "Nomadland" is a three-year fieldwork method used by Bruder to follow RV wanderers for 15,000 miles to record their lives and mental states.
In her book, she focuses on the pressure of economy, housing, and social welfare, a group of workers in the United States have to live in a caravan and start a wandering journey, they come from various industries, including university professors, McDonald's general managers, police officers and so on. In his dealings with them, Bruder constantly thinks and makes in-depth interpretations and discussions of the nomadic classes that have emerged in the current society and the socio-economic development changes behind them. The work later won the 2017 Barnes & Noble Books Newcomer Award in the Nonfiction Category.
Bruder, who has focused on the phenomenon of the homeless elderly since 2011, revealed in an interview with the media that she had written the book from a story she had read about amazon's project (the Migrant Worker Project), which provided job opportunities for some homeless people who lived in RVs and highways all year round, and was responsible for sorting, packing, storing and receiving packages in Amazon's warehouses.
"It subverts my understanding of 'motorhomes' and I used to think that some people drive motorhomes to travel to national parks, you know they have a well-funded pension, maybe they're going to enjoy it," she said. But when I actually went into the investigation, I found that this was not the case at all, and many of them were doing very difficult work to make a living, such as cleaning campsites, cleaning toilets, or taking turns watching over the amusement parks at the theme park for 12 hours. Then go to Amazon to do some package finishing work.
Some people live less than $1,000 a month, and I'm thinking about why the economic and social changes in the United States in 2000 and 2008 caused the nomadic status of this group to soar. ”
After an in-depth investigation, Bruder found that in fact, the "caravan nomadism" phenomenon in the United States has existed for a long time, but a financial storm in 2008 made this part of the group that was not concerned by society surface. Since 2013, Bruder has been in contact with the American people who have upended their lives because of the 2008 economic crisis, who originally had a perfect plan for retirement, but because of this crisis, they suddenly became nothing, and they had no choice but to join another group of working people who had lived at the bottom all their lives and became caravan nomads together.