Having just seen it I would not have rated it so well. There is minimal storyline, and it is presented in a somewhat "documentary like" style, with many snippets of conversations with fellow nomads, mostly wiith a message on life.
Frances McDormand performs her role very well. It is the story of a widow who starts off being forced to live in a small motorhome due to financial pressure and no jobs in the town where they had been living. On the road, she moves from one desolate gravel pit or parking lot to the next, chasing work while living a frugal life. There is the occasional nice scenery, but overall the atmosphere is dreary, and the grey, cold environment uninviting. The melancholy background music upholds this theme. While she may have had the nomadic lifestyle forced upon her, we see she is now totally out of her comfort zone with the typical capitalist way of life, and feels more at home with fellow nomads.
On the positive side, those viewers who choose to live on the road will appreciate and identify with the friendships and associations she makes with fellow nomads. It's not a tearjerker, but just don't expect any laughs. Perhaps those who rated it well saw it as a message, highlighting the gulf between the affluent and the poor.
re (Having just seen it I would not have rated it so well. There is minimal storyline, and it is presented in a somewhat "documentary like" style, with many snippets of conversations with fellow nomads, mostly with a message on life.)
Agree, but worth seeing, to me 3 stars, not the 4.5 star rating I have come across.
WE saw the movie yesterday. There was one scene that showed "Longhorne Saloon"in South Dakota Myself and my just looked at each other I have a slide of myself and mates in May 1968 at the same building In am the young me in the middle
