{"id":524,"date":"2012-06-30T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-06-30T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:30:49","slug":"footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2012\/06\/30\/footnote\/","title":{"rendered":"Footnote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Direction:\u00a0Joseph Cedar<\/p>\n

Featuring:\u00a0Shlomo Bar-Aba\u00a0and\u00a0Lior Ashkenazi<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Footnote is an Israeli film about a father and a son \u2013 both in the Talmud department of the Hebrew University. The father is a researcher following traditional research methods \u2013 hard-working, meticulous and perseverant. The son, on the other hand, is modern, publishes without being entirely sure, is sociable and highly appreciated. The father doesn\u2019t take his son\u2019s successes too well.<\/p>\n

To understand the film in its entirety, one must have some knowledge about Talmud research or at least Judaism and its texts. When you don\u2019t understand the literature, the film is a blindfolded ride through complex dynamics of this father-son relationship of envy, rage, sympathy, irreverence, fear and love (that is much considering the father is said to be autistic).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The father is proud and the son is sacrificial (more out of the fear of breaking the family). The father is contemptuous of his son\u2019s research but the son is sympathetic of his father\u2019s work. The father publicly calls his son an empty vessel but the son attributes all his successes to the father. In spite of the father being portrayed as the pompous guy, I felt for the father more than the son \u2013 almost as if he was wronged by the world (of research and rivalry).<\/p>\n

The women characters in the film are very interesting. There is the typical mother \u2013 hosting guests, folding up the newspaper, protecting the son and spreading love. There is the son\u2019s wife \u2013 whose job is to be a mother (for the grandson) and she even refuses to do it right. Then there is this girl who submits a research paper that is beyond bad and a journalist who is said to be amateurish.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The film\u2019s ending haunts you with its openness leaving you contemplating for a long while after the film what the father will do with the prize (knowing fully well he was awarded it at the mercy of his son). You are wondering if you know the father well enough to conclude that he will arrogantly refuse acceptance \u2013 or bury his wisdom and take the prize he waited decades for.<\/p>\n

In essence, footnote is the story of a bunch of convoluted relationships that the director leaves you to untangle in your own time. Well played, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Direction:\u00a0Joseph Cedar Featuring:\u00a0Shlomo Bar-Aba\u00a0and\u00a0Lior Ashkenazi Footnote is an Israeli film about a father and a son \u2013 both in the Talmud department of the Hebrew University. The father is a researcher following traditional research methods \u2013 hard-working, meticulous and perseverant. The son, on the other hand, is modern, publishes without being entirely sure, is sociable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[94,146],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-love-of-cinema","tag-cinema","tag-footnote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}