{"id":799,"date":"2020-03-17T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-07-19T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:13:28","slug":"slay-the-dragon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/2020\/03\/17\/slay-the-dragon-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Slay The Dragon (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back, visitors.  It&#8217;s been a rough year, hasn&#8217;t it?  I saw this film via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthousefilmfestival.com\/ahff\/\">Arthouse Film Festival<\/a> at the start of the Spring session. It is unfortunate, but they closed down the next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Runtime: 1 Hour 41 Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capsule Review, Minimal Spoilers:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10011500\/\">Slay The Dragon<\/a> is a documentary film about gerrymandering in the USA. What&#8217;s gerrymandering?  Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03XH6KDbbPH_4hyveACIKguYaCkQQ:1595181714206&amp;q=Gerrymander&amp;spell=1&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiGnbX78tnqAhWvmXIEHf6PDwYQBSgAegQIFBAn&amp;biw=1327&amp;bih=713\">Google<\/a> it, but in a nutshell, it is this &#8211; Every state has voting districts, that make up equal numbers of voters. Every 10 years, at census time, the results change those numbers, so its up to the politicians to &#8220;rebalance&#8221; the voting districts.  Seems well and good, however, it is the currently elected politicians who are in charge of it, and while they&#8217;re supposed to be fair, they have their own political biases, and work towards making all their districts be favorable to their own political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This film follows efforts by several people\/groups to make the process more unbiased, which is nigh-impossible. I found it a fascinating topic, and this film covers it well.  I do recommend this film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, visitors. It&#8217;s been a rough year, hasn&#8217;t it? I saw this film via the Arthouse Film Festival at the start of the Spring session. It is unfortunate, but they closed down the next week. Runtime: 1 Hour 41 Minutes Capsule Review, Minimal Spoilers: Slay The Dragon is a documentary film about gerrymandering in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/2020\/03\/17\/slay-the-dragon-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slay The Dragon (2019)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Fv6s-cT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ackthud.net\/AisleSeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}