{"id":85,"date":"2008-03-22T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-03-22T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:17:25","slug":"train-wrecks-cultural-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Train wrecks (cultural ones)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike just got back from the supermarket, where they have started a new campaign to push sushi to the more traditional French.\u00a0 \u00a8Don’t worry, contrary to what you’ve heard, it’s not raw fish\u00a8.\u00a0 What the heck is it then?\u00a0 Cooked tuna, apparently, wrapped up with some rice, and, wait for it, … mayonnaise<\/em>!\u00a0 Mike told them what he thought of it.\u00a0 Bleeech!<\/p>\n

But lest the Americans should get smug, Antonia subjected us to the film Polar Express this evening.\u00a0 What is going on there?\u00a0 I shouldn’t be surprised that Hollywood took a short and harmless picture book and turned it into a long movie, with no significant plot additions.\u00a0 What does disturb me is that they seem to have drawn a lot of inspiration from Big Brother, and they’re still pushing it as a family movie.\u00a0 If I tended to have nightmares, there’s plenty of material here.\u00a0 The kids who give the impression of being drug-pushing, cyncial, gangster tweens; the adults, who are really not the kind of types you would want your kids hanging around with; and especially the whole cult-like indoctrination experience: terrifying journey under harsh conditions, setting up a sense of elitism, scenes of mass hysteria when they do get to the North Pole, conversion to true belief in Santa…!\u00a0 That one pushed my cultural buttons all right: scenes of Hitler raising his arm above the mindless, screaming crowd.\u00a0 What is this movie trying to say?\u00a0 Or do?\u00a0 And if it’s not trying to say anything, what can I say about a culture that produces stuff like this ‘innocently’?<\/p>\n

We are pretty easy going parents, but we are unusually of one mind here.\u00a0 This movie is awful.\u00a0 I’m going to bring it out again when my daughter’s a bit older to show her what she should run from.\u00a0 Until then, I’m hiding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike just got back from the supermarket, where they have started a new campaign to push sushi to the more traditional French.\u00a0 \u00a8Don’t worry, contrary to what you’ve heard, it’s not raw fish\u00a8.\u00a0 What the heck is it then?\u00a0 Cooked tuna, apparently, wrapped up with some rice, and, wait for it, … mayonnaise!\u00a0 Mike told … Continue reading Train wrecks (cultural ones)<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}