{"id":18582,"date":"2026-05-18T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18582"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:58:09","slug":"the-tale-of-silyan-2025-tamara-kotevska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18582","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Silyan (2025, Tamara Kotevska)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who watch movies for the human drama, the &#8220;empathy machine&#8221; people, are the overwhelming majority in the arthouse realm, leaving us <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12026\">bird people<\/a> to scan every title and plot description for some sign of avian life and not bird-as-metaphor.  Once a decade we hit absolute gold, and coincidentally the same month <em>H Is For Hawk<\/em> came out, right around when I was watching the egret of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18517\">Alamar<\/a><\/em>, this incredible crane movie popped up.  This is what the cinema could be: vague stories featuring doc footage of storks eating frogs, and by that measure the greatest movies would be this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11824\">The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/silyan1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>That said, there&#8217;s much time spent on non-crane activity, as the movie contrasts fallen corrupted human economic life with timeless biological bird life.  Priced out of farming, a Macedonian man spends his time helping an injured stork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/silyan3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/silyan2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who watch movies for the human drama, the &#8220;empathy machine&#8221; people, are the overwhelming majority in the arthouse realm, leaving us bird people to scan every title and plot description for some sign of avian life and not bird-as-metaphor. Once a decade we hit absolute gold, and coincidentally the same month H Is For [&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":[2643,239,2605,3482,3481],"class_list":["post-18582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-birds","tag-macedonia","tag-stork","tag-tamara-kotevska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18582","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=18582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18613,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18582\/revisions\/18613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}