{"id":192,"date":"2008-03-03T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-03-03T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T11:12:50","slug":"the-namesake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/the-namesake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Namesake"},"content":{"rendered":"

We watched a pretty good movie this weekend – not the best I’ve ever seen, but good enough that it’s worth tracking down in your local video store (or, shudder, through NetFlix):\u00c2\u00a0 The Namesake<\/em>, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.\u00c2\u00a0 Directed by Mira Nair, the movie stars Kal Penn of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle<\/em>, who acts with depth and intelligence (which would have surprised me if I had only seen him in Harold & Kumar<\/em>, but he does now also have that role on House<\/em>).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

What I liked about this movie is its gentle perceptiveness as we follow this family over twenty-five or so years.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t ever see Gogol going to Yale, nor do we see his father teaching a class; instead, we are presented with smaller moments of their lives, mixed in with some of the biggest moments – deaths, births, marriages.\u00c2\u00a0 Family interactions take center stage here, and once I got used to the slow pace of the movie, I was hooked.\u00c2\u00a0 And I love that the ending doesn’t fall prey to the common trap of tying everything up neatly for the viewer, but instead leaves the possibilities of the future wide open.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a fine movie, one that stays with you; three stars from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We watched a pretty good movie this weekend – not the best I’ve ever seen, but good enough that it’s worth tracking down in your local video store (or, shudder, through NetFlix):\u00c2\u00a0 The Namesake, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.\u00c2\u00a0 Directed by Mira Nair, the movie stars Kal Penn of Harold & Kumar Go … Continue reading The Namesake<\/span> →<\/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":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}