{"id":3589,"date":"2015-05-19T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:37:17","slug":"movienight-thursday-may-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"White God. Good dog turns bad&#8230; temporarily."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/whitedog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/whitedog.jpg\" alt=\"whitedog\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/whitedog.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/whitedog-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hagen was a good dog. Not a pure breed, though, and when the estranged father of his owner discovered that a &#8220;Mongrel tax&#8221; would be levied, Hagen was turned out into the street. Kornel Mundruczo&#8217;s <em>White God<\/em> is steeped in symbolism, to an extent that perhaps one has to be a purebred Hungarian to fully appreciate. In a brief, post-movie wrap-up, our resident reviewer, Norris*, expressed his frustration with some unexplained references. &#8220;I <em>used<\/em> to be a professor.&#8221; Why? What happened? My guess: an inappropriate relationship with a student, which led to the birth of Hagen&#8217;s thirteen year old owner&#8230; OMD!<\/p>\n<p>*Of course Norris is actually Chris Norris, a gifted writer, whose recent, fascinating New York Times piece should be read <a title=\"Chris Norris, The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/21\/nyregion\/amid-butterflies-a-bit-of-a-lingua-franca-at-the-natural-history-museum.html?ref=nyregion&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Say &#8220;Butterfly&#8221; in Urdu? Easy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2844798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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>Hagen was a good dog. Not a pure breed, though, and when the estranged father of his owner discovered that a &#8220;Mongrel tax&#8221; would be levied, Hagen was turned out into the street. Kornel Mundruczo&#8217;s White God is steeped in symbolism, to an extent that perhaps one has to be a purebred Hungarian to fully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White God. Good dog turns bad&#8230; temporarily.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589"}],"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=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}