This movie is a little fart
Its weight, beauty, impact, poetry are as relevant and as memorable as that.
shareSo like you, and your feeble, failed attempt at criticism.
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MovieChat Forums > Nomadland (2021) Discussion > This movie is a little fart
What a racist post.
shareRacist against farts?
shareYes.
And homeless people.
1 there is no homeless in this movie
2 they are not a race
3 criticizing this movie has nothing to do with the people that are depicted by it (which, again, are not homeless).
Ok then it's racist against Asians. Director is Asian.
shareI think she falls in the "farts" category.
shareI'm curious here - my stepkids are Asian. Are they immune from criticism because they're Asian? When they fuck up, I don't pat them on their respective heads. As far as this movie, I saw it... it wasn't bad. I mean, the director is Asian. Yes... she also directed the Eternals movie that just puked its chunky afterbirth onto the silver screen last week. And, it's a pile of steaming shark shit. Do I have to like it because she directed it? Asking to make sure I don't wrongly criticize.
shareYou was right. It is one of these movies excelling in technique but failing in inspiration. So obviously contrived in its attempt to be realistic and naturalistic. I failed to get its point. Some people have chosen to live like gypsies and now they are all super depressed and dying of cancer? I'm pretty sure that this is not the whole story, I'm also pretty sure that many better set people go thru very similar emotional ordeals or suffer from their mistakes and stubbornness.
Despite McDormand's performance, her character rarely provokes emotion and the others (also well played by all these non-actors, which was a very fitting choice here) do it the cheap way - telling sad stories like they are on some TV program for old housewives with a lot of lingering shots and piano music. They probably teach it that way at the film schools.
"Meh, it is ok, I guess" type of a movie. Ultimately forgettable.
6/10
Nicely phrased.
But I more efficiently condensed its essence into a little fart.
It is more succinct and fitting.
Couldn't agree more. I was really excited about it. The fact it features real nomads had got my hopes high. But there is absolutely no character development. I felt sorry for the people who chose this lifestyle. They simply didn't seem happy at all.
shareThe problem is that they really hard tried to make it political. About the death of the American dream, how the system wronged them and such. At the same time we see some people who chose to live like that - hippies, anarcho-communists... Sure, some were probably forced into these circumstances. I bet that even their life was not a total crap. The almost relentless onslaught of depressing scenery, music and stories was uncalled for. There is this tug of war between a movie that wants to portray the lives of modern nomads and at the same time to make a political statement. Fail. It felt forced.