15 Films That Will Inspire You on an Existential Journey Through the USA When Life Seems Shitty
Oscar award-winning exhibition Chloe Zhao Nomadland inspires a new wave of tourism in unlikely places in South Dakota, including animal park “Gardens of reptiles” and store “Stena- pharmacy” in cowboy style, which are presented in the film .
With all due respect to these attractions, it is not the sites themselves that sell them, but the context: Nomadland paints a picture of badlands that seems attractive and even beautiful, even though it is not portrayed as a tourist paradise at all in the film. We visit these places not only for souvenirs, we are looking for something that the character Frances McDormand found there: something deeper, even elegiac. A good movie can make us take another look at a place (and its people) that we never really paid much attention to, and find charm and beauty in unexpected places.
These films inspire travel across America, but without the expected tourist stops. None of the travel is easy. They visit landscapes as different as the people living in the United States, with stories as complex as our relationships.