{"id":5966,"date":"2026-02-15T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:58:28","slug":"nomadland-by-chloe-zhao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/15\/nomadland-by-chloe-zhao\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Nomadland<\/em> by Chlo\u00e9 Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Supreme cinematography, script, acting, and directing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Authentic, moving, relevant, and suffused with emotional truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 No romanticizing\u2014grief is a constant presence, conditions are harsh, and the land is as beautiful as it is cruel and uncaring.<\/p>\n<p>A less subtle, more realistic depiction of post-recession exploitation\u2014particularly at Amazon\u2019s warehouses\u2014had introduced villains, emotions, and dynamics that would\u2019ve severely eroded the movie\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nomadland\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Nomadland<\/em><\/a> by Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, 2020.<br \/>\nWatched at the Atelier theater on February 13, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/02\/15\/nomadland-by-chloe-zhao\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Nomadland by Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\"><p>\ud83c\udfac McDormand\u2019s close to inhumanly good.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}