The Story Archive

Nomadland

Chloe Zhao · 2020 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

The gypsum plant closes, the town loses its zip code, and a widow in her sixties puts what is left into a van and takes seasonal work at an Amazon warehouse, a beet harvest, a campground. The people she meets on the road mostly play themselves. Adapted from Jessica Bruder's reportage, which this archive does not hold.

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Attributes

Genre
Psychological
Theme
Exile & HomecomingIsolation & AlienationSurvivalMemory & Time
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
WandererEveryman
Plot structure
EpisodicExile and Return
Symbol / motif
The JourneyThe WildernessThe Horizon
Conflict
vs Societyvs Nature
Mode / tone
ElegiacRealist
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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