(Jack said I could write movie reviews in poems. Maybe.)
We who are accustomed to
sitting here watching anything watching more
than we’ve ever watched in this year at home together
last night we watched Nomadland one
of the best films we’ve seen we both said Wonderful
not only because of Frances McDormand
her face has everything you believe every single thing she does
every word she says not only because of the real other
characters, not actors but themselves, from Jessica Bruder’s
book describing l older Americans living a transient life
real people, together and alone whose lives were never simple
the Badlands landscape unforgettable and an America
that most of us don’t know. This was a movie,
unforgettable movie, different from a book or a poem,
strong music, moving skies, and we will talk
about it for a while, not trying to understand it exactly
but feeling all those people, and Frances McDormand,
and sky after sky after sky.
After that poem/review, I'll definitely add Nomadland to the list of movies I intend to see or revisit soon, which includes "Battle of Algiers", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", "I Shot Jesse James", "Snowpiercer" and "Memories of Murder" (after seeing "Parasite"), and the highly touted "Judas and the Black Messiah".
We watched it last night -- thank you...