{"id":13341,"date":"2018-11-25T20:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2018-11-26T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T01:12:30","slug":"the-lost-city-of-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-lost-city-of-z\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost City of Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He&#8217;s been rather unfortunate in his choice of ancestors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lost City of Z<\/strong>, released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Percy is a major in the army who keeps getting passed over for medals. The Royal Geographical Society gives him a chance to reclaim his family&#8217;s honour &#8212; go to South America and map the border between Bolivia and Brazil. This starts a new phase of his life, as an explorer.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on a true story.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mesmerizing dangerous adventure. The story takes place over a period of 20 years, starting in 1905.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was interesting that Percy could imagine a lost civilization in South America but he couldn&#8217;t imagine taking his wife there.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;We&#8217;ve never let fear determine our future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ian McDiarmid has a small but important part.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, and Tom Holland. Directed by&nbsp;James Gray (<strong>The Immigrant<\/strong>). The soundtrack contains several classical works, including those of Mozart, Ravel, and Stravinsky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He&#8217;s been rather unfortunate in his choice of ancestors.&#8221; The Lost City of Z, released in 2016 Percy is a major in the army who keeps getting passed over for medals. The Royal Geographical Society gives him a chance to reclaim his family&#8217;s honour &#8212; go to South America and map the border between [&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":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-13341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341","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=13341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13354,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13341\/revisions\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}