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Everything is pending for the day that Netflix finally gets one of the two major awards that Hollywood distributes.
We talk about cinema, we talk about the drama category.
As far as TV and its series are concerned, the chain of yore has plenty and enough with
'The Crown
', not in vain chosen for the second time as the serious series of the year by the 87 journalists who vote in the Globes of Gold. The series with actors Gilliam Anderson, JOsh O'Connor and Emma Corrin.
If 'Gambit de dama' is added to it, already, definitely, Netflix series is without rival.
But, the cinema, the prestige and, with them, the coming-out of what a new exhibition paradigm wants to be, have not just arrived.
Not even in the year of confinement,
not even in the season that we ran out of movie theaters, not even at the time of the outbreak (we'll see how it ends) of the other pandemic: that of the platforms, not even when they had Aaron Sorkin as the Democratic front man of a new post-Trump time, not even ... If last year, they tried with three options (
'The Irishman', 'Story of a marriage'
and '
The two popes'
) and lost (won '
1917
'), this year '
only
' there were two possibilities ('
Mank
', by David Fincher, and
'Los 7 de Chicago'
, by the aforementioned Sorkin).
And neither.
'
Nomadland
' resists.
'
Nomadland
' definitely insists on becoming the movie of the year.
Chloé Zhao's film (winner also as director, something not seen since Barbra Streisand with '
Yentl
' in 1983) is on its way to becoming the most awarded production of all years.
The race began with all the honors in the first and almost only international festival capable of so much confinement, that of Venice, and there it continues.
The Oscars are missing, but they will come
.
Thus, this story of a nomad, of a traveler who has made mistakes, in its double meaning of making mistakes and going from one place to another, her way of being in the world suddenly becomes the spitting image of the resistance.
In more ways than one perhaps.
It should not be forgotten that the homonymous book by
Jessica Bruder
, a great journalistic report with a vocation for '
Zeitgeist
', is first of all an
amendment to the totality
of a way of life, the one we have given ourselves, as merciless as it is ruthless with any threat of sanity.
It is still relevant that the enemy number 1 of this society according to Bruder in his text (not so much in the film) has a face and eyes:
Amazon.
The firm is presented as the main responsible for a new form of labor and existential slavery that basically feeds on the consumerist voracity of a society dedicated body and soul to narcissistic self-exploitation, for making
Byung Chul-Han's
vocabulary good
.
Indeed, '
Nomadland
' is about the new '
homeless
' who go from one place to another in search of temporary jobs completely unassisted of any right threat: what is true for the '
riders
' is equally true for those in charge of distributing the goods in the great centers of the company located in the middle of nowhere.
And here, Jeff Bezos' delivery company, which is also a television platform, has no rival.
We buy compulsively, we watch series compulsively and we generate waste compulsively, and, compulsively, everything blows up.
That's what '
Nomadland
' is about.
It is impossible to see the film without making use of the poetics of the trip, the red sunsets and freedom as a cinematographic concept.
It is '
neowestern
' and, as such, the perfect description of the possibility of a new life.
If in
'The rider
', his previous work, Zhao made an effort to explore the meaning of the term limit, now he applies a similar criterion to find the almost ontological meaning of the trip.
That film was a frontier tale set in the exact place of the promise of adventure;
there where the maps begin to doubt, where the dragons dwell;
where reality is confused with fiction.
In '
Nomadland
', the filmmaker returns to update another myth of the West;
the one that travels and portrays the infinite spaces of the plain.
It does not matter which: the inside or the outside.
After the closure of a mining operation, an entire town disappears.
A widow, after first resisting to leave the home that once belonged to her family, finally decides to leave.
Soon you will find some true professionals of nomadism.
And it will unite not so much with them as with their way of being without being at all.
But above all, '
Nomadland
', beyond lyrics, is an apology for rejection.
To all his characters with an immense
Frances McDormand
at the head, he defines his estrangement from the world that consumes and consumes us, all of it.
Yes, we talk and the film that the pandemic has brought us with its platforms and
streaming
connections talks
.
That the ceremony itself was '
streaming
' is still a metaphor and irony.
For this reason, it is
striking
that it was precisely '
Nomadland
', consciously or unconsciously, the one chosen to answer Netflix, so close in its explanatory statement to Amazon itself.
With regard to the rest of the cinematographic record, the only thing left to do is congratulate ourselves on the place of honor achieved by '
Borat, sequel film film
' and by its maker
Sacha Baron Cohen
.
In her own way, she too shares the same spirit against the times.
And it does, to further fuel the contradiction in which we live, as the Amazon production that it is.
Weird.
Be that as it may, the Goya already have a model.
You can have a hybrid, telematic, pandemic or non-binary gala (whatever you want) and not die trying.
Admittedly, gossiping at the nominees' homes is an incentive.
How many of our actors will be seen in pajamas like Jodie Foster?
-
Jodie Foster at the time of collecting the award for 'The Mauritanian' AFP
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