{"id":56800,"date":"2024-08-19T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=56800"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:52:19","slug":"the-old-oak-dir-ken-loach-2023","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-old-oak-dir-ken-loach-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Oak: dir Ken Loach (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">Sometimes Ken Loach films can seem <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">a bit of a constant battering of messages about social incohesion and unfairness. At their best, though, they are suffused with empathy and idealism along with the anger <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">and the black-and-white morality; and <em>The Old Oak<\/em> is one of those. The Oak itself is a <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">rundown pub, metaphorically and actually the centre of passes for community in a <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">cash-strapped corner of the north-east of England <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">that has been suffering a slow, painful decline since <\/span>the coalmine closures of the 1980s. The arrival of a group of Syrian refugees provides a flashpoint for xenophobic tensions, but The Old Oak\u2019s landlord strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young female refugee. They find similarities in their situation and come up with a plan to bring the two traumatised communities together \u2026 There\u2019s a plea for open-hearted compassion and a message of hope and solidarity in a film which starts so bleakly as a comment on modern Britain. As the <em>Guardian<\/em> put it, \u201cKen Loach could hardly have delivered a more resonant, timely or indeed angry swansong than this feature which takes up arms against the decay of national compassion and makes a\u00a0statement of faith in compassion for the oppressed.\u201d. Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sometimes Ken Loach films can seem a bit of a constant battering of messages about social incohesion and unfairness. At their best, though, they are suffused with empathy and idealism along with the anger and the black-and-white morality; and The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-old-oak-dir-ken-loach-2023\/\" title=\"The Old Oak: dir Ken Loach (2023)\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56802,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[52],"class_list":["post-56800","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/56800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56800"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=56800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}