"Talk about a dream, try to make it real
You wake up in the night with a fear so real
You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come
Well, don't waste your time waiting
Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
Let the broken hearts stand as the price you've gotta pay
We'll keep pushin' till it's understood
And these badlands start treating us good"
( from "Badlands" - Bruce Springsteen)
Nomadland could've been an early Springsteen song, in movie form, and nothing proves the point more poignantly than the above lyrics.
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| Picture of the Badlands National Park |
The geography of the majestic Arizona deserts ! - The complimenting music by Ludovico Einaudi ! But there's more to this movie than that. The attraction of the unsettled life, especially one after a long one with a loved one, is the single most powerful driving force that makes Fern, turn down multiple offers for a permanent home. Encompassing a political dialogue, which represents a real problem in the USA, that of the aging population's economic upheaval and social dislocation, the movie uses that as a back ground. Real life characters like Swankie, Linda May and Bob Wells serve enough push to serve the political background. However, more importantly, it works perfectly as an elegy, and this is where the fore-mentioned Western scenery and the soundtrack come together, to a near perfect movie, where minimal dialogue, silence and vast spaces only serves to build up conflicting moods in the viewer - lure of the risk vs. the dull warmth of stability.
Rating - *****
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