Movie Recomendation

Tabaz

Just finished watching Nomadland.  Highly recommend this movie. Draw your own conclusions as to its message.

Tabaz

It deals with Boondocking, living full-time in a van. Working seasonally for Amazon.  Being a camp host. Cleaning campsites. Being alone while growing older. Foregoing relationships for "freedom."  

DougH

@Tabaz   So just a bleak enough message to make you give up RVing completely then...

ChrisFix

While it deals with all of the topics listed by @Tabaz it also deals with people surviving the best they can with the loss of loved ones, jobs, homes...and finding a new community that helps to rebuild their spirit from all that loss. 
It ain't all pretty, but heck, a whole lot of people really deal with this every day.
Like @Tabaz says, draw your own conclusions as to its message. 

Tabaz

DougH  and ChrisFix - my takeaway from the movie was a very positive message about a nomadic lifestyle.  Without giving away any specifics (and attempting to be a "Movie Critic"), I found the actions of the main character to be . . . . I'll leave it up to others how they interpret the movie.  WELL WORTH the $1.80 I spent on Redbox!  Unlike the three recent ultra-crappy Bruce Willis movies I rented. :(

qhumberd

I liked the film as well. As I have told some others "Nomadland does not have a sad ending, or a happy ending, just an ending that each person will interpret in light of their own lives". And for me it was a cautionary tale about the difference of choosing the RV lifestyle versus being forced into it.

Marceline

It’s well worth watching. Frances McDormand is brilliant. And it’s very interesting how the movie mixes a few actors with actual full timers like Bob Wells. 

cbarnhill

I loved it. The acting was great and, like Frank, I thought the message was uplifting. Having been to badlands, wall drugs and quartzsite, I identified with it. I highly recommend watching it. 

Mellow_Yellow

I love the triple entendre on the name, especially "No-Mad-Land": a way to stay sane! Adding this to my watch list

JoMoKe

Recommend the film after reading the book.  As a follower of Bob Wells on YouTube, I first read the book and was eager to see the film.  As expected, the non-fiction book dives much deeper into the underlying economic forces that have been devastating to older people who worked all their lives but now find themselves facing poverty.  Very different group from the Instagram digital nomads/VanLife community with their glossy Sprinters and for the most part,  affluent recreational rv'ers)  Film has a real bittersweet tone, very well done IMO. 

[Deleted User]

The message it sent to me was how I have to remember how unbelievably fortunate I am to be able to afford a T@b, a brand new tow vehicle and all of the various costs of owning and using an RV. 

TomCanada

Tabaz said:

Just finished watching Nomadland.  Highly recommend this movie. Draw your own conclusions as to its message.

Thanks for the recommendation - will be sure to check it out!  It's interesting how camping, or RV'ing, is pursued as a leisure-time activity or lifestyle by those of us with means, yet some of those fallen on hard times live the same lifestyle (but permanently) and don't see it that way at all.  Perhaps it's that knowing we can at any time park the trailer or pack up the tent and go home, or stay in a nice hotel, that makes it very much a first-world luxury we have.