Review of Nomadland (2021) by Corvin — 19 Feb 2021

Nomadland the movie is not Nomadland the book. Every body-breaking horror of capitalism is slowed down and fuzzed away. As any factory or warehouse worker who watches the Amazon scenes knows. As anyone who read the book or worked a beetfield harvest knows.

The closest thing to the book was the camp host scenes. Hard to gloss over cleaning portapotties, maybe. Not a terrible movie. The book is better. The book is the closest to the real thing you'll get unless you're already living there.

And at least the book doesn't blame the victims. The movie has some victim blaming.