A couple of weeks ago, Ashley and I watched the awards-favorite film, Nomadland, from the comfort of our home. I went into it bracing for a plotless, heavy-handed drama, but as the film progressed, I realized we were watching something special. Nomadland follows Fern, a woman who is traveling across the western United States with a few belongings, a van, and grief. We watch her over the course of a year and begin to understand she is a product of failed capitalism. The town where she once lived and worked no longer exists and in her travels, she has become a nomad. Job to job, town to town, life on the road. While this film is certainly not plotless, it is also not narrative-driven. I imagine if someone filmed the every day of my life, in all its mundane simplicity, an audience would argue it is too is plotless.
Nomadland and the Person of Faith
Nomadland and the Person of Faith
Nomadland and the Person of Faith
A couple of weeks ago, Ashley and I watched the awards-favorite film, Nomadland, from the comfort of our home. I went into it bracing for a plotless, heavy-handed drama, but as the film progressed, I realized we were watching something special. Nomadland follows Fern, a woman who is traveling across the western United States with a few belongings, a van, and grief. We watch her over the course of a year and begin to understand she is a product of failed capitalism. The town where she once lived and worked no longer exists and in her travels, she has become a nomad. Job to job, town to town, life on the road. While this film is certainly not plotless, it is also not narrative-driven. I imagine if someone filmed the every day of my life, in all its mundane simplicity, an audience would argue it is too is plotless.