{"id":17582,"date":"2025-06-02T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17582"},"modified":"2025-06-01T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:56:43","slug":"homework-1989-abbas-kiarostami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17582","title":{"rendered":"Homework (1989, Abbas Kiarostami)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly a documentary about homework, interviewing kids about their homework in order to make points about schooling and parenting.  AK discusses not knowing what kind of movie he&#8217;s making at the beginning (&#8220;it&#8217;s not really a film, more a piece of research&#8221;), and at the end he breaks up the format to engage more deeply with a boy who didn&#8217;t want to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two kids&#8217; ambitions:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/homework1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/homework2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>During the interviews (the central bulk of the movie) he cuts to the cameraman really frequently, presumably for sound edits.  My main takeaway was the kids answering yes\/no questions with a clicking sound, which I like even more than the &#8220;mmm!&#8221;-with-head-nod I picked up from anime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/homework3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/homework4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly a documentary about homework, interviewing kids about their homework in order to make points about schooling and parenting. AK discusses not knowing what kind of movie he&#8217;s making at the beginning (&#8220;it&#8217;s not really a film, more a piece of research&#8221;), and at the end he breaks up the format to engage more deeply [&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":[357,85,170,93,133],"class_list":["post-17582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-abbas-kiarostami","tag-children","tag-documentary","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582","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=17582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17610,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17582\/revisions\/17610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}