{"id":19832,"date":"2022-10-02T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19832"},"modified":"2022-10-02T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T01:01:17","slug":"three-thousand-years-of-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/three-thousand-years-of-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Thousand Years of Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;I wish I could forget I ever met you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Thousand Years of Longing<\/strong>, released in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Alithea is a narratologist, trying to make sense of the world&#8217;s stories. While in Istanbul to give a talk, she buys a glass bottle in a shop. Back in her hotel room, while cleaning it the top pops off and a djinn appears. He asks her to make a wish. Alithea really doesn&#8217;t want to make a wish, so the djinn tells her about the previous wishes people made.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the oldness of the premise, I thought with these people involved there was a good chance it would be worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was somewhat interested in where the story would go, it also didn&#8217;t grab me as much as I wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Directed by George Miller (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/mad-max-fury-road\/\"><strong>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong><\/a>). The sparse but beautiful music is by Tom Holkenborg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;I wish I could forget I ever met you.&#8221; Three Thousand Years of Longing, released in 2022 Alithea is a narratologist, trying to make sense of the world&#8217;s stories. While in Istanbul to give a talk, she buys a glass bottle in a shop. Back in her hotel room, while cleaning it the top [&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":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-19832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832","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=19832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19836,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}