{"id":474,"date":"2008-01-30T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/474"},"modified":"2008-01-30T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:05:32","slug":"earth-1998-deepa-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/474","title":{"rendered":"Earth (1998, Deepa Mehta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be so down on the movies Katy picks, but I can&#8217;t help myself any more than she can pretend to enjoy watching &#8220;ace in the hole&#8221; or &#8220;pennies from heaven&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This felt like an obvious and uninteresting adaptation of an alright story about the partitioning of India and creation of Pakistan as symbolized by a conveniently diverse group of friends in Lahore and as seen through the eyes of a young innocent.<\/p>\n<p>The young innocent is rich-girl Lenny-baby (of a neutral parsee family) whose hindu caretaker Ayah (a cover girl from Fire) is one of the friends.  Also in there are muslims Hassan The Masseur (guy from Bollywood\/Hollywood) and Dil The Ice Candy Man (Lagaan), a sympathetic sikh whose name I can&#8217;t find right now, and Lenny&#8217;s cousin Adi who has an arranged marriage to a short old man.<\/p>\n<p>I took it as a history\/culture lesson, though I had to ask Katy lots of questions because this movie doesn&#8217;t spell out as much as Water did for the uninitiated.  Had the feeling of a postcard yearning for old peaceful times, so I didn&#8217;t see the violent atrocities of the second half coming&#8230; turns into a giant bummer.<\/p>\n<p><em>peaceful days:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/earth1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>friendly chat:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/earth3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><em>an ice-candy betrayal, baby:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/earth2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be so down on the movies Katy picks, but I can&#8217;t help myself any more than she can pretend to enjoy watching &#8220;ace in the hole&#8221; or &#8220;pennies from heaven&#8221;. This felt like an obvious and uninteresting adaptation of an alright story about the partitioning of India and creation of Pakistan as [&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":[113,31,37],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-india","tag-politics","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}