{"id":239228,"date":"2021-07-22T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239228"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:44:53","slug":"pre-covid-movie-harkens-back-to-when-people-were-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239228","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Covid Movie Harkens Back to When People Were Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>henrymakow.com \u2013 July 21, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22pa0wpGa9Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>After the Wedding<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0(2019) is a Work of Art. I was actually afraid to read how badly it bombed at the box office. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt7985692\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\">It grossed $3 million<\/a>. It probably cost at least ten times that to make. Critics gave it 46% on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/after_the_wedding_2019\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> while audiences gave it 76%. This is why movies today are shitty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/ten-superb-intelligent-movies-that-bombed.html?_ga=2.255833930.319600760.1622905010-903648786.1588285733\">The good ones bomb.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Henry Makow PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata<\/strong> travels to New York to meet a millionaire benefactor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is how the movie was marketed. It&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s actually about.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;benefactor,&#8221; magnificently played by Julianne Moore, is dying of cancer. She is trying to re-unite the &#8220;orphanage manager&#8221; played by Michelle Williams with her husband (Billy Crudup) and her step-daughter (Abby Quinn) because the manager is actually her step-daughter&#8217;s birth mother.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, the set-up, based on Susanne Bier&#8217;s 2006 Danish movie, is ridiculous. Supposedly the Williams and Crudup characters had a baby and agreed to put it up for adoption and separate. But Crudup changed his mind before the &#8220;grace&#8221; period expired and raised the child (Grace) himself without telling the mother who had left for India. He later married the Moore character who became a famously wealthy entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/2021\/07\/after-the-wedding.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is not why I love this movie and consider it a work of art. I love it because it portrays people as sophisticated, complex and loving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239235,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239228\/revisions\/239235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}