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Why Fern From Nomadland Looks So Familiar
Why Fern From Nomadland Looks So Familiar Searchlight Pictures
Journalist Jessica Bruder wrote
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century in order to draw attention to the growing number of older Americans who began traipsing across the nation after the economic crash of the late 2000s. Their purpose: find seasonal jobs, stay a while, and then move on, seeing as much as they possibly can while making ends meet. Bruder s nonfiction work has since been adapted into the much more simply titled
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Directed by Chloé Zhao, the film focuses on one of these older Americans: Fern, a woman out of a job when the manufacturing plant she s worked in for so long shuts down. To make matters worse, her husband passes away, leaving her with next to nothing. Her decision to become a nomad, then, is an easy one a way for her to move on both physically and emotionally. If Fern actress Frances McDormand seems familiar to you