{"id":63843,"date":"2017-07-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63843"},"modified":"2017-07-18T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T02:18:34","slug":"hows-that-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63843","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s That, Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a generally good review for the upcoming\u00a0<em>Dunkirk\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>, the reviewer writes (with emphasis added by yours truly):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The trio of timelines can be jarring as you figure out how they all fit, and the fact that there are\u00a0<strong>only a couple of women and no lead actors of color may rub some the wrong way.<\/strong> Still, Nolan\u2019s feat is undeniable: He\u2019s made an immersive war movie that celebrates the good of mankind while also making it clear that no victory is without sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm. \u00a0In a war fought almost exclusively by men, in Northwestern Europe which was, in 1940, almost entirely white<sup>1<\/sup>, go figure.<\/p>\n<p>[1] In fact a large part of France&#8217;s army was colonial troops &#8211; including many of their best and a significant part of the covering force that allowed the evacuation to happen at all,- were colonial troops from Chad, Morocco, Cameroon, Tunisia, Algeria, Vietnam and, especially, Senegal. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if they turn up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a generally good review for the upcoming\u00a0Dunkirk\u00a0in\u00a0USA Today, the reviewer writes (with emphasis added by yours truly): The trio of timelines can be jarring as you figure out how they all fit, and the fact that there are\u00a0only a couple of women and no lead actors of color may rub some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63844,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63843\/revisions\/63844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}