{"id":56,"date":"2018-12-07T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-02-19T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T17:18:01","slug":"the-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/the-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guilty. Who&#8217;s who?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/guilty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/guilty.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/guilty-540x360.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Best not to jump to conclusions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Norris for this recommendation. <em>The Guilty<\/em> is Danish director Gustav M\u00f6ller&#8217;s feature film debut&#8230; a terse, nail biter set in an emergency call center.  Police officer Asger Holm has been demoted to desk work after some initially unexplained incident. As the movie opens, he\u2019s wrapping up his last day on the job. Tomorrow he\u2019ll face an inquiry about the mysterious incident, after which he expects to be back on the street with his partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holm isn&#8217;t having a very good last night in the call center, abused by drunkards and idiots with stupid requests for help,  but then takes a call from a frightened woman named Iben  who manages to convey through a series of &#8220;yes&#8221;s and &#8220;no&#8221;s, and pretending to speak to her little daughter, that she\u2019s been kidnapped, and is being driven by her  captor to some unknown location. Holm  becomes a man obsessed, determined to rescue Iben.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is edge-of-seat stuff, with a lesson to be learned by all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6742252\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Norris for this recommendation. The Guilty is Danish director Gustav M\u00f6ller&#8217;s feature film debut&#8230; a terse, nail biter set in an emergency call center. Police officer Asger Holm has been demoted to desk work after some initially unexplained incident. As the movie opens, he\u2019s wrapping up his last day on the job. Tomorrow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/the-guilty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guilty. Who&#8217;s who?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}