This is it. This is the piece about Nomadland I have been waiting for. It’s too gentle and comforting a film, it leaves out too much unpleasantness, and that’s a problem when you’re telling a story about systems and situations that should outrage us all.https://vult.re/2OXN0hv
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Hey, if you all have problems with the Nomadland piece, maybe take it up with the site that published it or the person who wrote it. I'm just a poor person who has worked in an Amazon warehouse and who agrees with it. Leave me the fuck alone.
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Some people are QTing me and saying this piece (which again I didn’t write) amounts to wanting the film to be something other than what it is. But can’t we challenge the choices it makes in adapting its non-fiction source material, and the impact of what it chooses to leave out?
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I’m just...irked by the fact that we follow a character who has a choice, who has a sister she can turn to for money, who liberal viewers can look at and say “Well, she’s choosing this lifestyle really, it’s what she wants” rather than one of the vast number of truly desperate.
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I did not experience it as a feel-good journey. I had mixed feelings about it but it mostly made me feel anxious for the characters. I worried about them living on the very edge of disaster. Maybe they experience that as “freedom”. Too many of them aren’t out there by choice.
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i felt this way too. it seemed odd that the standout line of dialogue about Amazon was the main character saying "they pay really well" in a moment of small talk. like weird, low-key advertising.
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