{"id":342,"date":"2007-01-13T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T02:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/archives\/342"},"modified":"2008-06-17T22:18:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T03:18:25","slug":"the-painted-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/01\/13\/the-painted-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painted Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/4o5.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0446755\/\">This movie<\/a> is a class act: a historical drama filled with beautiful images, well-drawn characters and fine acting. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, it has a rather old-fashioned sensibility, but I don&#8217;t think that is necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Watts plays Kitty, a London society girl in the 1920s, who marries a taciturn, undemonstrative doctor (Edward Norton). She doesn&#8217;t love him, but he wants to marry her and she is under pressure from her family to marry <em>someone<\/em>. (Apparently the First World War had killed off most of the eligible bachelors.)<\/p>\n<p>He takes her to Shanghai, where he manages a medical laboratory. She doesn&#8217;t like it there and ends up having an affair with a smooth-talking diplomat. When her husband finds out he is furious, and forces her to accompany him to a remote town that is suffering from a massive cholera epidemic. <\/p>\n<p>This is the beginning of a story of self-discovery and personal growth, set against a backdrop of tragedy, suffering and violent social upheaval. This is a thoughtful story for adults, and well worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This movie is a class act: a historical drama filled with beautiful images, well-drawn characters and fine acting. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, it has a rather&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/01\/13\/the-painted-veil\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-the-painted-veil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}