{"id":1580,"date":"2004-03-20T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/kitchenstories.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T21:58:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T20:58:33","slug":"a-well-chosen-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"A well chosen movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left Darmstadt for the semester break, our Belgian post-graduate college member Dominique gave me a little present which she thought fitting to my <a href=\"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/dissprojekt.html\" title=\"expos\u00e9e (in German)\">dissertation project<\/a>: the movie <em>Kitchen Stories<\/em> (original Norwegian title: <em lang=\"no\">Salmer fra kj\u00f8kkenet<\/em>.) I was curious why she thought this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0323872\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for this movie\">movie<\/a> would be fitting &#8211; she only said that is has something to do with &#8220;observation.&#8221; Well, right she was. This movie has everything to do with observation. Not in a scandalous voyeuristic manner, but more in a low key, calm, and very humane manner. It was a lot of fun to watch this movie. It provides a less spectacular insight into mid-twentieth century social science than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0250258\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for Das Experiment\">Das Experiment<\/a> &#8211; a movie which deals with the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment.<br \/>\nThis movie is not only recommendable if you like slow movies, have a knack for Scandinavia, and the potential curiosities of the social sciences &#8211; this movie is a nice treat in general and I highly recommend it: good actors, excellent story, well done photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I left Darmstadt for the semester break, our Belgian post-graduate college member Dominique gave me a little present which she thought fitting to my dissertation project: the movie Kitchen Stories (original Norwegian title: Salmer fra kj\u00f8kkenet.) I was curious why she thought this movie would be fitting &#8211; she only said that is has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,9],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","category-social-science","tag-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}