{"id":14148,"date":"2021-04-05T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2021-04-04T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:24:53","slug":"her-socialist-smile-2020-john-gianvito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14148","title":{"rendered":"Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/545\">Profit Motive<\/a><\/em>, Gianvito made a couple of 4+ hour docs about the messes that US military bases leave behind in other countries, but here he&#8217;s back in <em>Profit Motive<\/em> mode with a compact doc full of reading material.  The subject is Helen Keller, so he plays with narration and silence, also mixes in period sound recordings and tactile nature photography.  A dead bird is photographed for metaphorical reasons, and I&#8217;m still recovering from all the avian violence in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14123\">Bird Island<\/a><\/em> but I&#8217;m going to allow it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/socialist1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Keller was turned onto socialism by an HG Wells book, and after socialist party infighting, she joins the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12566\">IWW\/wobblies<\/a> and becomes increasingly radical &#8211; but remains philosophical and witty in her Q&#038;A responses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/socialist2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Profit Motive, Gianvito made a couple of 4+ hour docs about the messes that US military bases leave behind in other countries, but here he&#8217;s back in Profit Motive mode with a compact doc full of reading material. The subject is Helen Keller, so he plays with narration and silence, also mixes in period [&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":[395,336,2834,93,2832,2833,1093],"class_list":["post-14148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-blindness","tag-communism","tag-deafness","tag-documentary","tag-h-g-wells","tag-helen-keller","tag-john-gianvito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","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=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14171,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions\/14171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}