{"id":25187,"date":"2025-10-26T22:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25187"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:42:44","slug":"eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “I am the embodiment of perfection.”<\/p>\n

Eden<\/strong>, released in 2024<\/p>\n

After World War I, Ritter and Dore move from Germany to an island in the Galapagos, to work on a new philosophy. Ritter writes letters which are published in Germany, and other people come to the island — although Ritter doesn’t particularly want them to. Heinz is the first — he brings his wife and his son, who is not well. Life on the island is tough, but Ritter and Dore have made the best of it. Then a baroness arrives.<\/p>\n

It’s about people living in a nice-looking but difficult place, trying to survive and perhaps thrive — some of whom are prepared to work against the others.<\/p>\n

It’s about people who are ruthless, in various ways.<\/p>\n

It has a bit of a Mosquito Coast<\/strong> flavour to it.<\/p>\n

It’s based on a true story, although — as the movie points out at the end — the people who wrote about it disagreed about what happened.<\/p>\n

Stars Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Br\u00fchl, and Sydney Sweeney. Directed by Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “I am the embodiment of perfection.” Eden, released in 2024 After World War I, Ritter and Dore move from Germany to an island in the Galapagos, to work on a new philosophy. Ritter writes letters which are published in Germany, and other people come to the island — although Ritter doesn’t particularly want them […]<\/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-25187","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\/25187","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=25187"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25907,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}