{"id":684,"date":"2017-04-05T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/the-student\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:14:00","slug":"the-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/the-student\/","title":{"rendered":"The Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to tell you, there&#8217;s another movie I&#8217;m going to have to be on the lookout for and perhaps you will be too. The Student.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/the-student-poster-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12592\" \/><em>After Venya&#8217;s mother receives a call from school reporting her son&#8217;s refusal to participate in mixed swimming lessons, she first suspects her teenager of being shy and derides his claim that it is against his religion.As Venya is finally exempted by the school&#8217;s devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority.<\/p>\n<p>Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when arguments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama ,\u009d based on a play by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg ,\u009d serves as a frightening cautionary tale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUAcN-mqxiU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/reviews\/the-student-review-1201773669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> says, At a time when arguments over educational  safe spaces&#8217;  and belief-based  micro-aggressions&#8217;  are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama ,\u009d based on a stage work by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg ,\u009d serves as a frightening cautionary tale. Whether it ultimately comes down for or against unqualified free speech, however, is one of many potential topics of post-screening conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The Studentopens in San Francisco this month with more screenings nationwide to follow. You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestudent-film.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to tell you, there&#8217;s another movie I&#8217;m going to have to be on the lookout for and perhaps you will be too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}