{"id":10821,"date":"2017-06-15T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2019-05-08T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:23:47","slug":"rakka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/rakka\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakka (volume 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The ones that are experimented on, who survive. The very few. Her theory is it&#8217;s because they have some kind of predisposition. They&#8217;re savants of some kind. And Amir is like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rakka<\/strong> volume 1, released in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Aliens have invaded Earth and things are not going well for humans. They&#8217;re trying to fight back, but the aliens have destroyed almost everything. A group fighting back makes a deal with a man who can make a bomb out of anything. Then they rescue a man who&#8217;s been experimented on, who can help even more &#8212; a man who can see the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is a short film that&#8217;s available on YouTube here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjQ2t_yNHQs\">Oats Studios &#8211; Volume 1 &#8211; Rakka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit disturbing but very well done &#8212; it immerses you in this terrible world. They must have had a decent budget because the visuals are great.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that it&#8217;s short &#8212; the ending is abrupt. Hopefully if it gets enough attention it will get a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Neill Blomkamp (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/chappie\/\"><strong>Chappie<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The ones that are experimented on, who survive. The very few. Her theory is it&#8217;s because they have some kind of predisposition. They&#8217;re savants of some kind. And Amir is like that.&#8221; Rakka volume 1, released in 2017 Aliens have invaded Earth and things are not going well for humans. They&#8217;re trying to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,8,111],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}