{"id":16865,"date":"2024-10-13T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16865"},"modified":"2024-10-11T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T20:57:09","slug":"the-river-and-death-1955-luis-bunuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16865","title":{"rendered":"The River and Death (1955, Luis Bu\u00f1uel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simple fable of a violent vendetta town cluttered up with twenty characters and a flashback structure so it seems more complex than it is.  Hunky doctor Gerardo, recovering from polio in the big city, is being challenged by Romulo to a duel back in his hometown.  He explains that the men of his family and another have been killing each other for generations, each killer hiding out on a nearby island for a penance period afterwards.  Gerardo goes home at his mom&#8217;s request, agrees to meet Romulo on the island but refuses to shoot him &#8211; an anti-macho softie ending as the two men hug it out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/riverdeath.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Romulo is Friday in the <em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em> movie, the town priest also played priests in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4585\">Archibaldo de la Cruz<\/a><\/em> and <em>El<\/em>, and peacekeeping elder Don Nemesio plays the title role in the as-seen-on-MST3K <em>Santa Claus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple fable of a violent vendetta town cluttered up with twenty characters and a flashback structure so it seems more complex than it is. Hunky doctor Gerardo, recovering from polio in the big city, is being challenged by Romulo to a duel back in his hometown. He explains that the men of his family and [&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":[342,6,137,144],"class_list":["post-16865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-mexico","tag-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865","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=16865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16903,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}