In the winter of 2011, affected by the previous financial crisis, the demand for gypsum board in the United States decreased. The American Gypsum Company closed its 88-year-old factory in a small town in Nevada. This small town’s employment market really depends on manufacture industries. This situation has left hundreds of local workers homeless. In order to survive, they rushed to all parts of the country. Fein, the protagonist of the film, is one of them. She lost her husband, her homeland, was alone, became a wanderer, and wandered all over the world.

Fern is a victim of the economic crisis, which has created her painful destiny. However, she responded to the suffering of life in a self-destructive but still hopeful way. Fern and the wanderers she represents are mostly from the working class. Years of fatigue and exploitation have made them tired of capitalists full of lies and the fake "resistance to exploitation", so they have given up their expectations of social fairness and justice. Instead of banishing the wanderings and escaping from reality to heal the suffering of life. In my opinion, this approach is "self-destructive but hopeful."

When we give up our expectations of society that means "being out of the world", it means that we have given up our original social ambitions and the value of the individual to society. Humans are social animals, and actually we will return to society. Wanderers are like this. Half of them are instrumentalists in the capital market, and half are devoted to primitive freedom, and they will never truly “being out of the society”. The fundamental reason for their escape from reality is that they   cannot reflect their self-worth. So I think this is a "self-destructive" lifestyle.

However their attitude towards life in the process of wandering is full of hope. They will sing loudly at night, support each other, accompany each other through the most difficult moments of life, and express their most primitive emotions. The wanderers integrate themselves into the whole nature, let their worries pass away with the wind, face the sufferings of life with a new attitude, and realize their inner self-salvation.

The movie provides the audience with another way of life. In fact, we all know that we are suffered from this such rapidly developing society. But in the end it will only become our helpless sigh. However, the emergence of "Nomadland" gave us a kind of helpless hope. As a victim of the great age, a person's life is short, and sometimes it is better to leave everything behind and go on the road alone to carry out inner self-salvation. Therefore, "the road these wanderers are heading toward is not just a way of escape, but a beacon for the suffering that everyone may suffer in the future."

To be honest, "Nomadland" didn't catch my eye very much, and I almost fell asleep while watching it. It's been a long time since I watched such a “slow” movie, but I never the movies full of suspense, horror, and violence. Perhaps I have lost patience with "slow movies", eager for strong visual effects and ups and downs to stimulate my nerves. In such an information age, all kinds of news and videos are rushing to the face every day. They are famous for being short and "catching", and they fill my entertainment world. Gradually, I got used to this fast-food-style information reception. When faced with a slow literary film, I can’t adapt.

This is a problem created by today's society. The recently the self-media industry developing rapidly. They are all products of such an information age and are unavoidable social problems. However, in such an era of sloppy information, can we keep ourselves from being involved in this vortex?