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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I want to reiterate that I really did find Nomadland stunningly beautiful--there were images in this film that took my breath away--and I think Chloe Zhao is immensely talented. I just take significant issue with some of the creative choices made in telling this story.
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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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Also the brief scenes we get in Amazon warehouses are almost chummy & pleasant. Show me how grueling it is. Show me how you’re treated like a machine, your productivity scrutinized, how you mat try to avoid bathroom breaks, how wiped out you are at the end of the interminable day
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And yet, my god, Chloe Zhao is a virtuoso. So many indelible images in this film. The way you feel the vastness of the land as Fern’s little van crosses the landscape, dwarfed by the emptiness around her. Incredible.
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