{"id":242,"date":"2007-03-20T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/242"},"modified":"2007-04-11T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T20:33:59","slug":"the-namesake-2006-mira-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/242","title":{"rendered":"The Namesake (2006, Mira Nair)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashouk marries Ashima and takes her to NYC where they have kids Gogol and Sonia.  Gogol is frustrated from having a funny name, dates a rich girl for a while, ends up marrying another girl who leaves him for her French ex.  Changes his name from Gogol to Nikhil, confused by his parents&#8217; choice of name until his dad finally tells him about the Gogol-reading train-accident that originally led him to the States.<\/p>\n<p>Movie never gets bogged down in story, constantly exploring its theme of living in a foreign country, of cultural differences, leaving and returning home, families split and together.  Uses color and music, costumes and props to develop further&#8230; every element serves the themes and characters perfectly.  Lots of movies attempt this &#8220;foreigner moves to new place, sees it from a fresh outsider perspective, finds similarities between cultures\/people, eventually fails\/succeeds to fit in&#8221; idea, but hardly any have succeeded with such a smart, human story.  I fell for it completely.<\/p>\n<p>Saw again with Katy, still love it, she liked it too.  Says the filmmakers seemed to have more compassion for the characters than the author of the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashouk marries Ashima and takes her to NYC where they have kids Gogol and Sonia. Gogol is frustrated from having a funny name, dates a rich girl for a while, ends up marrying another girl who leaves him for her French ex. Changes his name from Gogol to Nikhil, confused by his parents&#8217; choice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,621],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-india","tag-mira-nair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}