{"id":14276,"date":"2021-06-07T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14276"},"modified":"2021-06-07T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:57:28","slug":"delphines-prayers-2021-rosine-mfetgo-mbakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14276","title":{"rendered":"Delphine&#8217;s Prayers (2021, Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No music, little camera movement, background noise from others in the house or from a laptop tuned to Nollywood TV, otherwise all focus is on Delphine.  Raped + pregnant at 13, prostitution to get by in Cameroon and Belgium, proposed to by two white men and due to circumstances she married the one she&#8217;s not in love with.  Shunned by family after a sick niece died in her care, but that&#8217;s all forgotten after she moves to Europe and they assume she&#8217;s rich.  She speaks English with a heavy dialect and French mixed in &#8211; Katy thinks it&#8217;s shady that the subtitler rephrased her dialogue when we can hear her speaking different words.  All the titular prayers come at once, in a breakdown near the end.  Better than most single-subject monologue films I&#8217;ve seen, still not my preferred mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No music, little camera movement, background noise from others in the house or from a laptop tuned to Nollywood TV, otherwise all focus is on Delphine. Raped + pregnant at 13, prostitution to get by in Cameroon and Belgium, proposed to by two white men and due to circumstances she married the one she&#8217;s not [&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":[2643,911,1192,93,2873,2245],"class_list":["post-14276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-belgium","tag-cameroon","tag-documentary","tag-rosine-mbakam","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276","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=14276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14297,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14276\/revisions\/14297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}