Amazon is a disaster for workers. Nomadland glosses over that | Jessa Crispin

The film doesn't glamorize life at an Amazon warehouse. But it's undeniably useful to the corporation to have a prestigious film to give political cover

The new movie Nomadland may have received six nominations for the Academy Awards this year, but it's also been met with its fair share of controversy. Telling the story of Fern (played by Frances McDormand), a woman who lives an itinerant life, moving from state to state to follow work, sleeping in her van modified into cramped living quarters, the depiction is, some critics say, too cheery. She lives this life because she chooses to, hitting the road after a tragedy, not because she has to. And the work she does supports her lifestyle and she wants for nothing more.

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