{"id":680,"date":"2014-04-15T04:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.wordpress.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:51:07","slug":"abused-children-desperately-search-for-justice-and-philosophical-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Abused children desperately search for justice and philosophical truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Short<\/a><\/p>\n

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Short Term 12<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n

In this expansion of his earlier short film, Destin Cretton documents a group home for abused and forgotten kids who’ve been told they were worthless until they believed it.<\/p>\n

Grace (Brie Larson), a survivor of abuse and current counselor\u00a0at the home, must deal with unresolved feelings when newcomer Jayden reminds her of her own troubled past.<\/p>\n

Marcus (Keith Stanfield) who will be forced out of the shelter when he turns 18 and is afraid to leave the security of the only safe place he’s ever known.<\/p>\n

Mason (John Gallagher Jr.) is a fellow counselor and Grace’s long-term boyfriend who offers unqualified support only to be rebuffed as he gets too close.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Beatrix (best known as Rosa Diaz on\u00a0Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/a><\/em>), is very funny as Jessica, one of the counselors at the center.<\/p>\n

Despite the bleak setting, this is a hopeful film which shows it’s possible to beat the odds and rise above the filth of our lives.<\/p>\n

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\"Hannah<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hannah Arendt<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n

This is tough biographical film about the German-American political theorist Hannah Arendt<\/a>\u00a0who was\u00a0already a famous intellectual theorist when she agreed to cover the trial of notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her concept of the banality of evil<\/a>\u00a0was her attempt to reconcile the monster she expected with the non threatening man found. He was an anti-Semite, but these\u00a0impulses were subservient to\u00a0his desire to\u00a0advance his own status, and she believed his trial was a proxy\u00a0for the trial of Nazism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the publication of her account of the trial<\/a>, Arendt became a pariah, losing many friends who accused her of sympathizing with Eichmann and defending the Nazi cause.<\/p>\n

The film is a continued exploration of her primary themes, the nature of evil and the consequences of honesty and courage, applied to her own life story.<\/p>\n

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\"Desperately<\/a><\/p>\n

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Desperately Seeking Susan<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1985)<\/p>\n

Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is fascinated by the messages Susan (Madonna) leaves and receives in the personal section of a New York City tabloid.\u00a0 When one message\u00a0mentions a meeting at Battery Park<\/a>, Roberta goes to meet her on a whim. In a convoluted\u00a0plot involving amnesia, stolen earrings, gangsters, and a midlife crisis, Roberta assumes Susan’s identity.<\/p>\n

Laurie Metcalf, Aidan Quinn, comedian Steven Wright, and a young Giancarlo Esposito (later to become famous as Gus Fring<\/a>)\u00a0have supporting roles.<\/p>\n

The film is a minor representative of a sub-genre of whimsical realist films from the 1980s which included All of Me (<\/em>1984),\u00a0The Golden Child<\/em> (1986), and Big Trouble in Little China <\/em>(1986).\u00a0The tone is Lewis Carroll<\/a>, but the look is Mean Streets<\/em>\u00a0(1973) and Saturday Night Fever<\/em>\u00a0(1977).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Short Term 12\u00a0(2013) In this expansion of his earlier short film, Destin Cretton documents a group home for abused and forgotten kids who’ve been told they were worthless until they believed it. Grace (Brie Larson), a survivor of abuse and current counselor\u00a0at the home, must deal with unresolved feelings when newcomer Jayden reminds her… Continue reading Abused children desperately search for justice and philosophical truth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,222,309,326,344,499,637,693],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-brie-larson","tag-destin-daniel-cretton","tag-german-films","tag-hannah-arendt","tag-holocaust","tag-madonna","tag-philosophy","tag-rosanna-arquette","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}