{"id":718,"date":"2008-09-04T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=718"},"modified":"2008-09-04T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:03:22","slug":"my-son-the-fanatic-1997-udayan-prasad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/718","title":{"rendered":"My Son The Fanatic (1997, Udayan Prasad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Hanif Kureishi, which I know is a Big Deal in the academic world but I&#8217;m not entirely sure why.  Katy points out the complex characters and the offbeat ending (the father alone &#038; lonely in his house).  Cab-driving father is a lapsed muslim who has sex with prostitutes and does other non-muslim things, and his son decides to go hard-line and hang out with clerics and protest whore houses (and burn them down).  Argument ensues, father does not win, son buzzes off and wife leaves father.  I am having trouble with the details, unfortunately.  When I think back two weeks to when I watched this, a sort of generic movie-of-the-week feeling comes to mind.  I do remember the actors alright &#8211; Om Puri (<em>Gandhi<\/em>, <em>Code 46<\/em>) and Akbar Kurtha (<em>Syriana<\/em>) were good as father and son, respectively.  Rachel Griffiths (<em>Blow<\/em>, <em>Jude<\/em>) I suppose was the prostitute, and we were treated to a phoned-in performance from Stellan Skarsgard in the midst of his breakout year in Hollywood (from <em>Breaking the Waves<\/em> and <em>Insomnia<\/em> to <em>Amistad<\/em> and <em>Good Will Hunting<\/em>).  Stellan is a rich immoral businessman who pays Om Puri to drive him around and supply prostitutes &#8211; I keep thinking Stellan&#8217;s parties in empty warehouses will go all <em>Hostel<\/em> but they never do.  Katy thought it was alright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Hanif Kureishi, which I know is a Big Deal in the academic world but I&#8217;m not entirely sure why. Katy points out the complex characters and the offbeat ending (the father alone &#038; lonely in his house). Cab-driving father is a lapsed muslim who has sex with prostitutes and does other non-muslim things, [&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":[535,538,539,191,540],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-hanif-kureishi","tag-muslim-fundamentalism","tag-om-puri","tag-prostitution","tag-stellan-skarsgard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}