{"id":12161,"date":"2017-10-07T11:18:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2017-10-07T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T16:18:20","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/07\/belated-movie-reviews-249\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tknightreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/the-100-year-old-banner-e1455927687616.jpg?resize=423%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"150\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Really? Him? Or is it just a delicious self-parody?<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A commentary on how the neuroatypical and the elderly can contribute to society,the Swedish\u00a0<i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hundred-Year-Old_Man_Who_Climbed_Out_of_the_Window_and_Disappeared_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/i><b><\/b>(2013) follows the farcical adventures of Allan, from birth to being 100 years old. As a boy, he is more than fascinated with explosives.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>Consigned to a mental hospital, he becomes one of the victims of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eugenics<\/a><\/em> movement, thereby telling the historically knowledgeable audience that he will ever be on the margins of society. But there&#8217;s a small problem with that message: knowing about explosives is a useful skill for a century wracked with war. Participating the Spanish Civil War and witnessing the first nuclear blast put him at the center of the events of the century.<\/p>\n<p>If only he knew. His dying mother implored him not to think too much, and he&#8217;s followed this axiom, never overthinking his decisions, simply putting forth his opinion or taking advantage of opportunities. He may reach his 100th birthday not a rich man, but comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Until a fox kills his cat.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps taking revenge on the fox is not truly useful to society, but as his usual series of decisions unfolds, well, let&#8217;s just say whoever gets in his way do not fare well as they try to out think a man who doesn&#8217;t put too much effort into thinking himself.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this is a paean to the autonomous citizen, bumbling along, and whether he stays more or less within the pale of civilized society on purpose or by accident, at 100 years old, he&#8217;s still contributing.<\/p>\n<p>And watch out for Sonja.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commentary on how the neuroatypical and the elderly can contribute to society,the Swedish\u00a0The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared\u00a0(2013) follows the farcical adventures of Allan, from birth to being 100 years old. As a boy, he is more than fascinated with explosives. He&#8217;s obsessed. Consigned \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/07\/belated-movie-reviews-249\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12162,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/12162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}