{"id":12,"date":"2006-04-28T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:36:30","slug":"the-gladiators-1969-peter-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12","title":{"rendered":"The Gladiators (1969, Peter Watkins)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cerebral, kinda unengaging movie.  Interestingly done though.  Allegorial, with each person representing a country or type.  Seemed like a total bust for a while there, but as I was getting disappointed I asked myself &#8220;why is the movie doing this?&#8221; and figured out the allegory.  A message movie then, the message being that there&#8217;s only one System that all countries and governments (even the neutrals) help perpetuate.  I wasn&#8217;t as impressed with the combat scenes as everyone in the reviews and commentary was &#8211; more interested in the politics of the thing.  As a political statement, it&#8217;s pretty wonderful.  Probably needs another viewing sometime.  Katy was cool on it but &#8220;didn&#8217;t hate it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the disc was <strong><em>Diary of an Unknown Soldier<\/em><\/strong>, apparently the first short Watkins made that he still likes.  The last day of a soldier&#8217;s life before being sent to the front, so another war commentary, told all in narration.  I like Watkins&#8217; style &#8211; it&#8217;s not like anything else I&#8217;ve been watching.  Which makes me wonder why I haven&#8217;t sat down with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/54\">Punishment Park<\/a><\/em> yet.  Seems like all of his stuff should be worth seeing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/gladiators.jpg\" alt=\"Gladiators\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cerebral, kinda unengaging movie. Interestingly done though. Allegorial, with each person representing a country or type. Seemed like a total bust for a while there, but as I was getting disappointed I asked myself &#8220;why is the movie doing this?&#8221; and figured out the allegory. A message movie then, the message being that there&#8217;s only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,151,31],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-peter-watkins","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}