{"id":21186,"date":"2012-02-13T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T07:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=21186"},"modified":"2012-02-13T23:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T07:06:01","slug":"samsara-ron-fricke-2011-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=21186","title":{"rendered":"Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/upload\/2011\/09\/091211-TIFF-Samsara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Krista Marquez, Santa Barbara Film Festival<\/p>\n<p>Sand mandalas, colorfully meticulous; destroyed in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Green fields adorned with far east brown temples; mass martial arts school: black and red.<\/p>\n<p>Balinese dancers, eyes wide, clad in yellow; actions speak louder than words.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaaba Stone within the Great mosque, revolving with men dressed in white,<\/p>\n<p>The wheel of life, ever turning, are blessings of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Nepalese teetering on rock faces; meditation mount.<\/p>\n<p>The Dome of the Rock, golden dome, holy rock, sits above Jerusalem,<\/p>\n<p>Shanty towns, high rise luxury.<\/p>\n<p>Houses full of sand, cars in trees; homes bearing the weight of the supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken factories, pig plantations; meat mechanically separated.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty through truth and wisdom, though not always \u00a0conventional beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Krista Marquez, Santa Barbara Film Festival Sand mandalas, colorfully meticulous; destroyed in the end. Green fields adorned with far east brown temples; mass martial arts school: black and red. Balinese dancers, eyes wide, clad in yellow; actions speak louder than words. The Kaaba Stone within the Great mosque, revolving with men dressed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}