{"id":17596,"date":"2025-06-15T21:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:19:58","slug":"education-2020-steve-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17596","title":{"rendered":"Education (2020, Steve McQueen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kingsley loves outer space, wants to be an astronaut but can&#8217;t read, gets in trouble in school and is busted down to a kindergarten-level special school. A bit upsetting that the night after watching <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17594\">Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii<\/a><\/em> I&#8217;m subjected to a fake schoolteacher singing &#8220;House of the Rising Sun&#8221; in its entirety. Nice little story with crazy end credits music.  Naomi Ackie plays an activist exposing the new school for being completely useless, and it ends (ironically I assume) with them putting their hope in an up-and-coming politician named Margaret Thatcher.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/education.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sicinski called this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17013\">Wheatle<\/a><\/em> the weakest episodes: &#8220;Still, even understood as fundamentally educational efforts, these films are much more adept than the work of Loach and [Paul] Laverty when it comes to articulating the complexities of systematic oppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingsley loves outer space, wants to be an astronaut but can&#8217;t read, gets in trouble in school and is busted down to a kindergarten-level special school. A bit upsetting that the night after watching Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii I&#8217;m subjected to a fake schoolteacher singing &#8220;House of the Rising Sun&#8221; in its entirety. Nice [&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":[2643,102,2794],"class_list":["post-17596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-britain","tag-steve-mcqueen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596","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=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17645,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions\/17645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}