Nomanland Review
Nomadland Review
By Joey Dabisch
Nomadland is the latest movie from the director Chloe Zhao, who was also behind The Rider and will be making the upcoming Marvel movie, The Eternals. The film Nomadland is about Fern (Frances McDormand), a nomad, who has lost everything and has now taken to the road to get everything she can from life.
This film is going to be very hard to describe with words. For me, it was one of those experiences in the theaters where I was just amazed. The story was a part of that. It created many investing characters that you felt sympathy for throughout the movie. Many people you felt happy to see again if Fern met them down the road. That was a big theme of the film. Even though you are leaving someone, you will still see them later on. You don't really get messages that are that strong in movies. There was one problem that I had with the story, the ending. Nomadland didn't really end in the best of ways. It sort of just ended the way it started. For some people, I bet that was a nice ending, but I didn't like it that much. That is the only complaint I have with the whole film. Otherwise, the story was a work of art.
The acting was a key part of making this film what it is. Frances McDormand gave one of her best performances. I think she has a pretty good chance at getting an Oscar for her work in this film. David Strathairn also played a pretty big part in the film. He portrayed a very likable person and just knocked it out of the park. Everybody in this film was likable. There was nobody that was hard to feel sad or happy for. The rest of the characters that you saw throughout the film were all actual nomads. They all gave pretty good performances in this film. None of them felt like the people in The 5:17 to Paris.
The scenery was outstanding. Many times, I was in awe of how nice this film looked. It really captured how nice many places are in the United States. That was one of the things that made the movie feel so special to me. The many places they went overall just made me feel like I should explore the world more and go to more places. Also just all of the opinions of the end of life just made me feel not that sad about it. It sounds weird but when this film talked about death, I didn't feel all depressed like in Five Feet Apart.
Nomadland looked beautiful and was told even better although the ending didn't really line up. Nomadland is a film I would recommend to anybody.