RE: [Movie] Nomadland: Life on the Road
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The magic in this movie resides not only in McDormand's performance. It rests also in her fellow 'actors'. Almost all of them are not acting. They are truly nomads. They live on the road. They are part of a mobile community that travels from place to place, a kind of underground society of people who, for one reason or another, have taken up anchor and have decided to keep moving.
To be sure, the motivation for all of them seems to be essentially economic. The first stop Fern makes is at a campground near an Amazon warehouse. She arrives at night and the next morning goes to work at the warehouse. It's Christmas. Amazon needs seasonal workers.
Dear @agmoore !
I thought Americans living in trailers were the poorest class in America! This is the first time I've seen them wandering around as seasonal workers!
Do you want to be nomad?
Hello @goldgrifin007,
There are a lot of very poor people in the U.S. A lot of them would love to have a camper. The poorest of the poor live on the street, in tents. It takes money to keep up a camper. First of all, you have to own the camper. Then you need gas, and if it breaks down you need to fix it. But yes, many people living on a tight budget find camper life to be more affordable.
I love campers, but for fun, not for a lifestyle. Some campers are quite luxurious and cost upwards of $100,000. The people in the movie probably did not have one of those campers.
https://mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/2010/07/07/housing-in-rural-america
Do poor people in the U.S. live in trailer houses, while those with a little more wealth buy RVs?
There are many degrees of poverty. All you have to do is walk down a city street and you see people with no home at all. There are trailer parks where people live. They are not necessarily poor people. There are people who live in stationary homes but cramped in with many others...sharing meager quarters. There are so many ways of being poor.
It's terrifying, the idea of falling through the cracks and becoming on of the 'poor'. Most people think it's not going to happen to them, but it does.
Yeah, I agree with you!
I thought you would live a comfortable life within the social safety net!