{"id":13348,"date":"2020-01-27T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2020-01-27T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T03:46:13","slug":"a-hidden-life-2019-terrence-malick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13348","title":{"rendered":"A Hidden Life (2019, Terrence Malick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t they know evil when they see it?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We are used to it now.<\/p>\n<p>Main guy is August Diehl (title star of <em>The Young Karl Marx<\/em>) and wife Fani is Valerie Pachner, whose <em>The Ground Beneath My Feet<\/em> premiered a few months earlier.  Very happy to see Franz Rogowski as a fellow prisoner in the second half &#8211; that guy is in both of my <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13373\">favorite movies<\/a> of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bilge Ebiri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/12\/a-hidden-life-review-terrence-malicks-new-movie.html\">in Vulture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You won&#8217;t find the delirious, extended montages of Knight of Cups or the galactic scope of Tree of Life here.  Instead, Franz winds up in a series of almost philosophical dialogues, with priests, bureaucrats, prisoners, neighbors.  Actually, it&#8217;s probably more accurate to call these loose monologues, since Franz remains mostly quiet throughout.  But his very presence poses a question to these individuals about the problem of evil.  \u201cWhich side are you on, and why?\u201d he might as well be asking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After Franz&#8217;s execution, the town seems to behave more tenderly towards the new widow.  This is either my wishful thinking or Malick&#8217;s, since Bilge says of the real family: &#8220;the J\u00e4gerst\u00e4tters were treated as outcasts and traitors by fellow Austrians well into the 1990s.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t they know evil when they see it?&#8221; &#8220;We are used to it now. Main guy is August Diehl (title star of The Young Karl Marx) and wife Fani is Valerie Pachner, whose The Ground Beneath My Feet premiered a few months earlier. Very happy to see Franz Rogowski as a fellow prisoner in the [&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":[1049,248,63,118],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-nazis","tag-religion","tag-terrence-malick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","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=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13393,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions\/13393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}