{"id":8175,"date":"2012-11-14T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2012-11-11T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:19:01","slug":"kinyarwanda-2011-alrick-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8175","title":{"rendered":"Kinyarwanda (2011, Alrick Brown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no, I shouldn&#8217;t have waited so long to write about this&#8230; let&#8217;s see what I can remember.  Rwandan genocide movie, shown from different character perspectives and overlapping timelines.  That&#8217;s not clear at first, when small stories are set up then abruptly abandoned, but as they start to cross and join towards the end (including at least one <em>Run Lola Run<\/em> alternate-story), the movie gets much richer and more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is a movie about a struggle, a young couple from opposite sides of the struggle must fall in love, so that happens.  The girl&#8217;s parents are murdered, her boyfriend has to decide whether to support her or not, and the killer eventually confesses at one of those forgiveness committees.  Also a priest on the run hides with an imam and regains his faith.  And an outmanned military group tries to protect the courtyard where the girl and the priest are hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Brown&#8217;s first feature after a string of shorts, won an audience award at Sundance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no, I shouldn&#8217;t have waited so long to write about this&#8230; let&#8217;s see what I can remember. Rwandan genocide movie, shown from different character perspectives and overlapping timelines. That&#8217;s not clear at first, when small stories are set up then abruptly abandoned, but as they start to cross and join towards the end (including [&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":[1049,42,95,1613],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-africa","tag-emory","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","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=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}