It’s the most depressing movie... McDormand character husband dies and she drifts away from this crappy small town and works menial jobs traveling from city or should say town to town with other 60-somethings living in vans working contract type jobs like boxing things at Amazon. She is admired by other women from her hometown for having the guts to drift around and live this lifestyle. Hence ‘Nomad’ from the title but ‘vagabondland’ would have been more apt as characters were light on self-providing.
It’s a good movie; telling a story of one woman’s reason for becoming a nomad, but also telling other nomad’s reasons for hitting the road and chucking the “9 to 5 buy a house and a lot of cheap junk to furnish it and pay taxes until you’re broke” lifestyle. Nomads take the road less traveled.
Maybe the filming is a little dark and the mood a little sad, but it’s also a reality for a lot of folks; even more so now that Biden and the leftists are running things.
I enjoyed the movie; shed a tear in parts and laughed in a couple more. I’ve been watching nomad stuff for a while and spent a summer being a nomad a few years back, even though I am a medical professional; and I have plans to do it again this summer. I call it my sabbatical from society.
If you have Hulu, it’s included in their movie stock. Give it a chance, turn it off if it depresses you. Hopefully it will make you think about what is important in life so you can make changes and enjoy the important stuff.