{"id":4201,"date":"2017-04-06T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T03:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2019-02-17T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T17:53:46","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"Graduation. High marks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graduation.jpg\" alt=\"graduation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graduation.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/graduation-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a corrupt society, where some people &#8220;help&#8221; other people, and expect &#8220;help&#8221; in return, it seems quite plausible that a doctor might arrange for an escalation in the kidney transplant waiting list in exchange for a guarantee of good grades in his daughter&#8217;s exam results. Director Cristian Mingiu&#8217;s <em>Graduation<\/em> paints a pretty bleak portrait of the Romanian system, but somehow manages to leave us with a glimmer of hope&#8230; a hope that the next generation might be able to do a bit better job at being human. This was a stunning movie, and a great MovieNight presentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4936450\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" 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>In a corrupt society, where some people &#8220;help&#8221; other people, and expect &#8220;help&#8221; in return, it seems quite plausible that a doctor might arrange for an escalation in the kidney transplant waiting list in exchange for a guarantee of good grades in his daughter&#8217;s exam results. Director Cristian Mingiu&#8217;s Graduation paints a pretty bleak portrait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduation. High marks.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201"}],"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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}