{"id":10998,"date":"2016-04-22T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:44:46","slug":"embrace-of-the-serpent-2015-ciro-guerra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10998","title":{"rendered":"Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karamakate in the Amazon is visited by two white men seeking the same herb at different times in his life.  As a strong and suspicious young man in 1909 he meets Belgian Theo (<em>Borgman<\/em> star Jan Bijvoet) who claims he seeks the plant to cure an illness.  As a forgetful old man during WWII he meets Evan (Brionne Davis of a recent <em>Wizard of Oz<\/em> miniseries &#8211; IMDB: &#8220;ambitious and terrible&#8221;), who claims to be a noble scientist but is ultimately seeking materials for military use.<\/p>\n<p>Really beautiful black-and-white jungle\/river photography, recreations of native life and its corruption and destruction by so-called Christians.  The story about needing to teach the white guys to dream, and the parallel timelines (the latter-day one ending with Karamakate destroying the plant rather than hand it over) were a bit confounding and the heavy symbolism a bit tiresome, but overall I liked it better than Cinema Scope did, and not as much as Reverse Shot did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karamakate in the Amazon is visited by two white men seeking the same herb at different times in his life. As a strong and suspicious young man in 1909 he meets Belgian Theo (Borgman star Jan Bijvoet) who claims he seeks the plant to cure an illness. As a forgetful old man during WWII he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[838,416,1049,2082,367,136],"class_list":["post-10998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1900s","tag-1940s","tag-2010s","tag-colombia","tag-colonialism","tag-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}