{"id":2258,"date":"2025-02-02T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2025-02-02T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T04:56:42","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/movie-pass-adventures-the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: The Seed of the Sacred Fig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.png\" alt=\"Movie bar for The Seed of the Sacred Fig, featuring the faces of Rezvan and Sana.\" class=\"wp-image-2259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m about to make some silly nit-picky complaints, but this is a good movie with strong performances from everyone in the family, and it&#8217;s worth investing two and three quarter hours to watch. Soheila Golestani is particularly strong as a woman trying to do the right thing while protecting her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That being said, here comes the nitpicking! There&#8217;s a bit of mild spoiling below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Anton Chekhov watched the first scene he&#8217;d jump up and yell &#8220;Hey! I know at least one thing that&#8217;s going to happen at the end!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ages of the actors playing the kids are a little hinky. There&#8217;s a moment where the mother says one of the daughters is going through puberty, and I thought &#8220;wait- how old is she supposed to be\/&#8221; I looked up the actress afterward, and she&#8217;s 32. She doesn&#8217;t look ancient, but she sure doesn&#8217;t look like a kid. Then again, this movie was shot in secret and everyone had to flee the country after it was done to avoid getting arrested, so I guess they were lucky to find good actress of any age willing to live in exile to tell this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: is it bad that a chase scene in this very serious movie reminded me of Scooby Doo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You know what this movie needs? A silly poster!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can figure out the poster I&#8217;m copying, you can probably figure out why I picked it. Or you could save some effort and just read the alt text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Seed-of-the-Sacred-Fig-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Seed of the Sacred Fig imitating the poster of the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.\" class=\"wp-image-2260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Seed-of-the-Sacred-Fig-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Seed-of-the-Sacred-Fig-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Seed-of-the-Sacred-Fig-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Seed-of-the-Sacred-Fig.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying hard to make a &#8220;see-saw-seed&#8221; work and failing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}