{"id":19029,"date":"2026-10-02T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=19029"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:16:39","slug":"whirlpool-of-fate-1925-jean-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/19029","title":{"rendered":"Whirlpool of Fate (1925, Jean Renoir)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking out the Renoir silents with my faithful playlist of weird jazz.  Cute riverboat girl Catherine &#8220;Nana&#8221; Hessling loses her dad to a random fall overboard and becomes the ward of her abusive uncle.  Things aren&#8217;t gonna get any better from here, if the film title is to be believed.  She meets a charismatic poacher named Weasel who provokes the locals into burning his house down, the girl left crying while Weasel skips town with her dog.  But the girl doesn&#8217;t deserve all this torment by 1920&#8217;s standards, she hasn&#8217;t done anything wicked or evil like <em>have sex with a man<\/em>, so after she has some cool hallucinations (Melies cauchemars, lizards and anti-gravity) she&#8217;s discovered by a nice rich boy who helps fight off the uncle when he tries to return.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/whirlpool1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/whirlpool2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking out the Renoir silents with my faithful playlist of weird jazz. Cute riverboat girl Catherine &#8220;Nana&#8221; Hessling loses her dad to a random fall overboard and becomes the ward of her abusive uncle. Things aren&#8217;t gonna get any better from here, if the film title is to be believed. She meets a charismatic poacher [&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":[526,34,1821,146],"class_list":["post-19029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-france","tag-hallucination","tag-jean-renoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029","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=19029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19029\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}