{"id":1497,"date":"2005-10-03T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2005-10-03T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:39:00","slug":"paradise-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went and saw Paradise Now<\/i> at the walker with . It was supposed to be a Humphrey event, and at least 3 other Humphrey people were there. We scattered through the audience due to lack of contiguous seating, though. <\/p>\n

Paradise Now is a movie about Palestinian suicide bombers. It portrays its subjects as people. It tells a mostly realistic story. For that, unsurprisingly, the movie’s maker says he has received criticism in both Palestine and Israel. One wants firm, strong heroes. The other wants loathesome monsters. <\/p>\n

It’s an uncomfortable movie to watch. There isn’t much blood, guts, or gore in the movie. But it displays the emotional depth and extent of the conflict felt by the characters in a convincing fashion. Also, much of the movie is set in Nablus in Palestine. To people accustomed to the United States, the conditions there can serve as a bit of reminder that the rest of the world isn’t all like this. I recommend it as food for thought. <\/p>\n

The Q&A after the movie was a little ugh. The guy is a moviemaker, not a policymaker. The people they had start off the Q&A were foreign relations and policy people, and of course, went off on their own several-minute expository lecture before asking a question that was at best tangentially related to their lecture. But that’s the norm when it comes to questions in this or similar sorts of environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went and saw Paradise Now at the walker with . It was supposed to be a Humphrey event, and at least 3 other Humphrey people were there. We scattered through the audience due to lack of contiguous seating, though. Paradise Now is a movie about Palestinian suicide bombers. It portrays its subjects as people. … Continue reading “Paradise Now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}