{"id":11894,"date":"2017-03-19T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2017-03-18T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T15:50:17","slug":"indignation-2016-james-schamus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11894","title":{"rendered":"Indignation (2016, James Schamus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about the nursing home intro, but in the end felt it was the best framing device of an older woman recalling dead friends since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/440\">Atonement<\/a><\/em>.  Bulk of the movie follows serious-minded, self-assured Marcus as he learns (and ultimately fails) to navigate a college full of distracting human elements &#8211; a patronizing dean, a sexy rich girl, noisy roommates and people who want atheist Marcus to define himself as Jewish (and at the same time want him to attend the school-mandated chapel services).  After he&#8217;s caught buying his way out of church (he&#8217;s not wealthy, but felt that getting out of church was morally necessary), he&#8217;s expelled, sent to the Korean war, killed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/indignation2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Marcus&#8217;s girl Olivia is Sarah Gadon, Gugu&#8217;s white sister-cousin in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9195\">Belle<\/a><\/em>, Pattinson&#8217;s wife in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8101\">Cosmopolis<\/a><\/em>, the sick celebrity in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9529\">Antiviral<\/a><\/em> &#8211; I should be able to recognize her by now.  If I watch this again, need to pay more attention to her character, now that I know more about her emotional instability and tragic end.  Marcus is Logan Lerman, who starred as loner high school freshman in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8149\">Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a><\/em>, now a loner college freshman.  He&#8217;s magnetic, and his clash with the equally serious and self-assured dean (Tracy Letts, writer of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1018\">Bug<\/a><\/em>, also in <em>Homeland<\/em> and <em>Christine<\/em>), mostly represented in one extra-long, tense meeting scene, was reason enough to keep watching, though I didn&#8217;t get much sense of narrative progression or the movie&#8217;s point until it all comes flooding in at the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/indignation1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/indignation3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>M. D&#8217;Angelo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A chilling illustration of nails that stick out being hammered down, lent additional blunt force by the strangeness of (fairly recent) history &#8230; Also rare and exciting to see intellectual ferocity onscreen, even if it&#8217;s the annoyingly self-righteous undergrad variety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered about the nursing home intro, but in the end felt it was the best framing device of an older woman recalling dead friends since Atonement. Bulk of the movie follows serious-minded, self-assured Marcus as he learns (and ultimately fails) to navigate a college full of distracting human elements &#8211; a patronizing dean, a [&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":[342,1049,296,1900,536,2240,229,63],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-2010s","tag-book-adaptation","tag-college","tag-conformity","tag-james-schamus","tag-korea","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","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=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}