{"id":1680,"date":"2011-11-17T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2012-01-17T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:47:46","slug":"movienight-thursday-november-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"The Last Train Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1696\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1696\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1696\" title=\"Watch out for that telephone pole!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lasttrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lasttrain.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/lasttrain-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Train<\/em> home provided a handful of guests with a heart-rending glimpse into the life of a modern Chinese family. And you think you have it tough? Maybe it&#8217;s because of my age (it certainly can&#8217;t be because of an inordinate amount of suffering&#8230; I haven&#8217;t really suffered much in my life, I must confess) but seeing this film made me just a tiny bit more resentful of those over-privileged teens one sees on the subway, visiting New York from [Elsewhere, USA]. They think that, for instance, since the escalator is moving, they needn&#8217;t bother using the thing as a stairway. Just stand there and let the machine do the work. Hello!? This country is at war and, for the war effort (personally, I don&#8217;t agree with either war, but still&#8230;) you could at least keep moving on an escalator. I know that this is perhaps not a succinct articulation of my frustration with the mostly lazy, often thoughtless, and goddammit-I-blame-the-parents, self-centered kids of today, but I hope you get what I&#8217;m eluding to.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side&#8230; every once in a while some kid surprises me with their smartness and shared appreciations. I guess it was always thus. Shit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1512201\/\" 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<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Train home provided a handful of guests with a heart-rending glimpse into the life of a modern Chinese family. And you think you have it tough? Maybe it&#8217;s because of my age (it certainly can&#8217;t be because of an inordinate amount of suffering&#8230; I haven&#8217;t really suffered much in my life, I must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Last Train Home<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682,"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\/1680"}],"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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}