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| Review: Nomadland |
Review: Nomadland. It is the third movie written and directed by Chloé Zhao after Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017).
Review: Nomadland Movie 2020
Nomadland tells the story of a woman named Fern (Frances McDormand) who after losing her job and the death of her husband decides to sell all of her possessions, buy a van, and stay in a car while traveling and looking for temporary housing. work to different places, across countries.
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| Review: Nomadland |
Fern wasn't the first or only person to do this. On her journey, Fern meets various foreign faces and names who like herself also decide to leave their normal lives and choose to live on the streets.
The life choices he made were not without consequences. In her solitude, a sense of loneliness often creeps into Fern's mind, which makes her miss her late husband's presence or question the life choices she has made.
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There is nothing complicated in the fabric of the stories told by Nomadland. Like Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider, Nomadland presents a personal story exploration of a phase or stages in the main character's life.
Adapted from the book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century written by Jessica Brother, Nomadland brings the audience to the figure of Fern who will later introduce a number of other characters she meets along her journey.
Some of these characters only appear as a glimpse in the life of Fern's character. Several other characters appear to give a deep impression on Fern's character, becoming a character she can call a friend, even giving an influence on the journey she goes through.
The knitted story given by Zhao is able to make every moment that Fern's character goes through can also be felt emotionally by every eye who watches Nomadland.
With a story that runs for 108 minutes, every location the main character stops at, every work she then does, and every face and name she encounters can give the impression that Nomadland is being worked on like a collection of story sketches from a character. .
It was the intelligence of director Zhao who then managed to combine these stories into a picture of rebellion or a manifestation of the disappointment that the main character feels about her life – or against the company culture that often exploits its workers without considering or treating them like a human being, a theme that has already been mentioned several times in the storyline of this movie.
Zhao's technical choice to make up the story is also able to make Nomadland feel so poetic in speaking. The series of music composed by Ludovico Einaudi succeeded in encouraging a number of emotional moments that were so crucial.
The cinematographic arrangement of Joshua James Richards managed to capture the beautiful and majestic impression of the various natural locations visited by Fern's character.
By placing McDormand to play the main character in a movie that has a complete storytelling focus on the character, Nomadland has its own point in story quality.
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A character actress with a very convincing performance, McDormand not only gives soul to the character she plays, but also allows every audience to feel the various emotional turmoil that is felt by her character – even without having to go through a long series of dialogues.
A number of quiet and lonely moments that must be passed and felt by Fern's character appear with a deeper touch thanks to McDormand's ability to bring her character to life.
Closing
Apart from David Strathairn and producer Peter Spears – who appeared in a scene in the movie Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) which he also produced, Zhao's acting department is filled with actors who are daily street travelers and have no previous experience in acting.
Even so, the direction given by Zhao managed to bring out the best acting skills from the entire cast of the movie.
The most impressive performances clearly came from Linda May and Charlene Swankie. May plays a character who later becomes a friend to Fern's character in a number of her journeys while Swankie's appearance manages to bring the most emotional moments in Nomadland's storyline.
Simple yet capable of speaking so deeply, Nomadland is a cinematic experience any audience will not forget.
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