{"id":25650,"date":"2020-01-10T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=25650"},"modified":"2020-01-09T23:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:38:38","slug":"a-hidden-life-is-a-powerful-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=25650","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Hidden Life\u2019 is a powerful true story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-A-Hidden-Life-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-A-Hidden-Life-movie-poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2020-01-10-A-Hidden-Life-movie-poster-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By MARK VIOLA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all like to think that we would take a stand for\nsomething important, something that could change the world for the better. But\nwhat if your stand, no matter how righteous, was destined to be forgotten? What\nif your sacrifice would ultimately make no tangible difference, and would\ninstead bring nothing but suffering to yourself and the ones you love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the dilemma facing Austrian farmer Franz\nJ\u00e4gerst\u00e4tter when he refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Eighty\nyears later, he is the subject of the new film, \u201cA Hidden Life,\u201d from\nwriter\/director Terrence Malick (\u201cTree of Life,\u201d \u201cThe Thin Red Line\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film follows Franz (August Diehl, \u201cSalt\u201d) in the\nbeautiful mountains of Austria. He sees his homeland running roughshod over the\ncontinent. Although as a conscientious objector, he would be willing to work in\na hospital, he flatly refuses to swear loyalty to Adolf Hitler, something all\nsoldiers were required to do. And, that sets the stage for the major conflict,\nbecause his refusal could lead to charges of treason and his possible\nexecution, leaving his wife Fani (Valerie Pachner, \u201cThe Ground Beneath My\nFeet\u201d) and his children at the mercy of their angry neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MARK VIOLA We all like to think that we would take a stand for something important, something that could change the world for the better. But what if your stand, no matter how righteous, was destined to be forgotten? What if your sacrifice would ultimately make no tangible difference, and would instead bring nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-25650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25652,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25650\/revisions\/25652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}