{"id":24852,"date":"2025-05-15T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24852"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:18:04","slug":"radio-free-albemuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/radio-free-albemuth\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Albemuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;You believing it?&#8230; All this, my act&#8230; So you bought it too. That&#8217;s good, that means I must be doing something right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio Free Albemuth<\/strong>, released in 2010<\/p>\n<p>Nick has been having unusual dreams where he believes a consciousness is speaking to him &#8212; it wants him to move to LA, so he does. He even has a name for it, VALIS. But his wife Rachel and his friend Phil, a science fiction writer, are skeptical. When Phil goes to LA for a visit Rachel says things are good but asks him not to bring up VALIS.<\/p>\n<p>This movie isn&#8217;t really a successful one overall, but it does have some interesting ideas. The parts about the fascist government are good, while the parts about the aliens are a bit nonsensical.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s a strange movie, it&#8217;s semi-autobiographical &#8212; Dick had some strange things happen to him. Based on the novel by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/philip-k-dicks-movies\/\">Philip K. Dick<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/minority-report-2\/\"><strong>Minority Report<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Stars Shea Whigham, Jonathan Scarfe, Katheryn Winnick, and Alanis Morissette. Directed by John Alan Simon (his only movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;You believing it?&#8230; All this, my act&#8230; So you bought it too. That&#8217;s good, that means I must be doing something right.&#8221; Radio Free Albemuth, released in 2010 Nick has been having unusual dreams where he believes a consciousness is speaking to him &#8212; it wants him to move to LA, so he does. [&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":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-24852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852","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=24852"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24870,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions\/24870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}