{"id":265,"date":"2007-04-16T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T18:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/265"},"modified":"2010-11-21T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:32:20","slug":"my-country-my-country-2006-laura-poitras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/265","title":{"rendered":"My Country My Country (2006, Laura Poitras)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Secularism won&#8217;t give us our rights.  America is secular but its democracy hasn&#8217;t achieved justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All movies start with the ending now.  This starts with the ending.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary portrait of an Iraqi father running for political office, unsuccessfully.  His (friend&#8217;s?) son gets kidnapped for ransom towards the end of the movie, safely returned, seems unconnected to the election.  A muddled film giving a muddled look into the muddled political world of a muddled country.  Would&#8217;ve maybe been valuable if <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/266\">The War Tapes<\/a><\/em> hadn&#8217;t blown it away a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the forced subtitles:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/mycountrymycountry.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/mycountrymycountry2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Secularism won&#8217;t give us our rights. America is secular but its democracy hasn&#8217;t achieved justice.&#8221; All movies start with the ending now. This starts with the ending. Documentary portrait of an Iraqi father running for political office, unsuccessfully. His (friend&#8217;s?) son gets kidnapped for ransom towards the end of the movie, safely returned, seems unconnected [&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":[93,31,251],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-documentary","tag-politics","tag-starts-at-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}