Thought provoking. This film was extremely thought provoking, I feel it really questions the nature of humanity and societies expectations. I had no clue that nomans even existed before this film. There was one line that really stuck out for me said by a friend of the main character Fern, which describe the nature of of these people not owning a home as an American tradition, something that has happened for hundreds of years. Why is it now only now that we in society frown upon this lifestyle?
Anyway the film was beautifully filmed. In particular the landscapes and shots used to capture these landscapes really did capture the beauty of the earth we live in. The production designer of this film also happened to be the cinematographer Joshua James Richards. He met the director Chloé Zhao met at NYU Film School and have since worked together on other projects such as “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider.”
Richards claims that both him and Zhao were inspired by "paintings, the Hudson Valley River School, that fading light on American western horizon, with the fallen tree in the foreground. I’d go home to the hotel [while shooting], and I’d just look at those paintings, and a shit-ton of [William] Eggleston photography. Eggleston to me is just the master of finding poetry in the everyday American mundane."
This is clearly evident in the film's artistic flare.
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