This is Nowhere: RV Camping at Wal-Mart

Rating:
Summary: Really really interesting, great piece of film
Review: As an RV nut here in the UK (www.myrv.co.uk), I read about this film elsewhere and sought it out on Amazon. As it turned out, I ended up buying it straight from the filmmakers themselves (nice one guys).

The only reason I have gone for four stars rather than five is that I think the producers should have put another item in the bonus feature section with more of their RV footage by way of giving the RV'ers something back, but that's just me, I could watch old and new RV's all day!

'This is Nowhere' is a modern classic that will one day be just as relevant a social document as the old John and Ruby Lomax films of the late 30's. Well done High Plains! (who I have no conection with by the way)

The film is as per the blurb, but essentially the makers of this documentary spoke to a number of the Wal-Marting full-time RV'ers and got their take on why they do what they do.

Though it is all very authentic and respectful and no one is ever laughed at behind their back, some of the editing and the apposition of dialogue versus environment is fabulously amusing. The cast of characters are all likeable, some are even loveable, the beauty of the lifestyle they have chosen of course is that when they all meet up at 'Wally's World' they are together for a few hours and then apart for a lifetime so, to each other, it makes no difference how nice they are.

This is one of the things that is most enjoyable about both the film and its subjects, and what holds your interest for the duration. These people give you a 100% dose of themselves, you can't hide who you are when you live your life in a coach.

Towards the end of course, the inevitable conclusion is reached, but the film gets there at a wonderfully tantalising pace.

God bless the Wal-Marters and indeed RV'ers everywhere, in 30 years time we'll be retired and Wal-Mart's RV section will be top of the list of must-see US destinations in our motorhome, but until then, Happy Trails!