Jeremy King (346 KP) rated Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982) in Movies
May 13, 2019
Meg Dyson (2 KP) rated Horizon Zero Dawn in Video Games
Jan 6, 2018
Travel Like a Boss Podcast
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Location Independent Entrepreneurs and Digital Nomads living the 4-hour workweek. Interviews with...
Deadpool Classic Companion Volume 1
Fabian Nicieza, Tom Brevoort and Mike Kanterovich
6.0
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Collects Nomad (1992) #4; Secret Defenders #15-17; Wolverine (1988) #88, 154-155; X-Force (1991)...
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint
6.5
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The game is set in an open world environment called Auroa, a fictional island in the Pacific Ocean....
Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales #1)
7.1
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Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with...
Between Worlds
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Between Worlds is a technology podcast that takes you over the horizon and beyond borders, to bring...
BankofMarquis (1832 KP) rated Nomadland (2020) in Movies
Mar 2, 2021
And, thank goodness it is, for without McDormand on the screen, this “slice-of-life” pseudo-documentary disguised as a feature film would be almost unwatchable as McDormand’s character floats through “slice of life” after “slice of life” in what is referred to as the “Nomad Lifestyle”.
Earnestly Directed by Chloe Zao, NOMADLAND tells the tale of Fern (McDormand) who loses her life, her job and her husband during the recession of the late 2000’s and starts to float through life - and experiences - as a “Nomad”, a person with no permanent address who goes from place to place, catching on to the random odd job and living her life in her van.
Zao and McDormand spent years filming in actual Nomad communities with the others in this film often times not realizing that McDormand was an actress playing a part. For McDormand, it had to be the ultimate acting challenge - living in the real world as a character - and she brings a watchable, lost Fern to the screen and she genuinely and earnestly interacts with the real-life characters she encounters. She is very watchable and is a pleasant character to spend the time with.
Most of these real life people she encounters open up about their lifestyle and the movie took on the feel of documentary with Fern as the interviewer/narrator of the story. This made for an intriguing glimpse into a heretofore unknown world (at least to me), but not a compelling film does it make.
Zao does try to drive a narrative as the only other notable actor in this film - David Straitharn - shows up as a fellow Nomad that develops a crush on Fern and is interested in leaving the Nomad life and invites Fern to join him.
This is the only real conflict in this story as we spend an hour-forty-five watching Fern flit from place to place and person to person not really trying to find herself, but letting the wind blow her to wherever the trail takes her next.
An intriguing (enough) slice of life, with a watchable central performance by McDormand, but not substantial enough to engage me as a feature film.
Letter Grade: B (I applaud the attempt)
7 stars (out of 10) and you can take that to the Bank(OfMarquis)
Xeodrifter
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Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of...
Jeremy King (346 KP) May 13, 2019