{"id":1144,"date":"2011-01-20T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2011-02-10T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:53:08","slug":"movienight-thursday-january-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Khadak. Weird and Wonderful."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/khadak_bike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1154\" title=\"Postman or Shaman?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/khadak_bike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/khadak_bike.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/khadak_bike-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some thought <em>Khadak<\/em> was &#8220;weird&#8221;, and some found it &#8220;wonderful&#8221;. Weirdly wonderful? Wonderfully weird?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that it isn&#8217;t a movie that you will forget about anytime soon. Although I&#8217;ve seen it several times, I&#8217;m still not really sure what is going on in the spiritual world of Bagi&#8217;s ancestors. Perhaps it&#8217;s supposed to be unfathomable. Who was the boy that Bagi exchanged knowing looks with on the road to relocation?<\/p>\n<p>That scene, with the herders in the back of the military truck, took me back to my travels in Tibet. Just such a truck took us from Lhasa to Reting Monastery; a seven hour drive on bumpy roads, with inspections by Chinese soldiers along the way. My friend and I had to hide behind ladies skirts to avoid detection!\u00c2\u00a0 After leaving Tibet, we traveled across northern China, and visited Mongolia. I remember the obvious &#8220;outbreak of animal illness&#8221; ploy that the Chinese would use to prevent people from visiting certain places. God only knows what was going on there.<\/p>\n<p>More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0475241\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thought Khadak was &#8220;weird&#8221;, and some found it &#8220;wonderful&#8221;. Weirdly wonderful? Wonderfully weird? I suspect that it isn&#8217;t a movie that you will forget about anytime soon. Although I&#8217;ve seen it several times, I&#8217;m still not really sure what is going on in the spiritual world of Bagi&#8217;s ancestors. Perhaps it&#8217;s supposed to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khadak. Weird and Wonderful.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}