In ‘Nomadland’ and at Easter, what’s remembered lives | Faith Matters NJ.com 11 hrs ago Rev. Alexander Santora, nj.com
Even in COVID 2021, Lent can be a busy season so I usually try to take a mini, mini retreat for a few hours to prepare for the Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter vigil, whose liturgies are rich and unique.
The acclaimed movie “Nomadland” intrigued me so for this year’s mini, mini retreat, I was off to Manhattan for the first time in over a year.
After a brisk walk to the Hoboken PATH, where I had an entire train car to myself, I emerged from the 9th Street station shocked at what I discovered. At 7:45 p.m., the Village-Little Italy neighborhoods had few people walking around. There seemed to be more homeless beggars on the streets. And so many storefronts were vacant with even more businesses closed or shuttered for good.
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For the real-life van dwellers who appear in âNomadland,â life hasnât changed drastically since the film was released.
Folks like Bob Wells, Linda May and Charlene Swankie say theyâve seen a sharp increase in incoming emails, but they havenât been bombarded by movie producers or fans trying to track them down.
Wells, for one, wouldnât hear of it. âWhen life gets too hectic, I run away and hide in the back country as much as I can,â he says during a Zoom conference.
âYou wouldnât think it, but Iâm an incredibly private person and I like my alone time to recover. Because I put myself in the spotlight so much in so many ways, I need more time than ever to be alone. If you can track me down, youâre really, really good.â
Frances McDormand in Nomadland. | Fox Searchlight
Fern stands forlorn, surveying the desert before her. She is a small figure looking out over the beautiful, austere, infinite landscape. The desert is her own world writ large.
She navigates that world in “Vanguard,” her turtle shell van remodeled to carry her few possessions on her back. She drifts toward temporary jobs as low-skill assembler and cleaner of other people’s messes at Amazon, Wall Drugs, and the Park Service, which support her and her road friends like Swankie, Linda May, and Dave (David Strathairn). They earn crumbs off the table, not really even small bites from the apple.