{"id":1977,"date":"2010-09-14T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2011-08-01T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T00:18:19","slug":"uncle-boonme-who-can-recall-his-past-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"UNCLE BOONME WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNCLE BOONME WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES- 2010.\u00a0Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Under the care of his dedicated sister-in-law (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Jenjira_Pongpas\/30143076\">Jenjira Pongpas<\/a>), terminally ill Uncle Boonmee (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Thanapat_Saisaymar\/30143249\">Thanapat Saisaymar<\/a>) spends his final days reminiscing about his past lives with the recently arrived ghost of his dead wife (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Natthakarn_Aphaiwonk\/30143250\">Natthakarn Aphaiwonk<\/a>) and his long-missing son (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Geerasak_Kulhong\/30143251\">Geerasak Kulhong<\/a>). Directed by celebrated Thai filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/RoleDisplay\/Apichatpong_Weerasethakul\/20043367\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul<\/a>, this free-floating fantasy film took home the Palme d&#8217;Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.&#8221; <strong>Three reviews, all great. TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7\/12\/11- <strong>Well, maybe it&#8217;s me but this\u00a0well reviewed\u00a0movie failed to movie me except to think about turning it off, probably because of my expectations. Beautiful landscapes but the story was so esoteric and mysterious that I often\u00a0failed to see his point and at some level I felt that this was another example of &#8220;the emperor&#8217;s new clothes.&#8221; TRDB.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNCLE BOONME WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES- 2010.\u00a0Premise by Netflix. &#8220;Under the care of his dedicated sister-in-law (Jenjira Pongpas), terminally ill Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) spends his final days reminiscing about his past lives with the recently arrived ghost of his dead wife (Natthakarn Aphaiwonk) and his long-missing son (Geerasak Kulhong). Directed by celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,49],"tags":[27,96],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dramaromance","category-seen-on-netflix","tag-drama","tag-foreign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereeldrbob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}