{"id":8609,"date":"2022-07-25T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:15:25","slug":"mohawk-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=8609","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I saw Mohawk<\/a> close on a week ago, but what with the falling trees, collapsing fences, narrowly averted gas explosions, recurrent gut infections, work overflows, and hospital visits, I just haven’t really made the appropriate time to think about it yet, much less talk about it. Today, though, today just may be that day!<\/p>\n

This movie feels like someone’s passion project, someone who is a lot more steeped in Mohawk[1] and to a lesser extent early American history than I am. This is perhaps what I get for never having finished Assassin’s Creed 3. So, while the movie was interested in a snapshot of the Mohawk nation in decline, and perhaps in their myths and magicks of that period, what I found most compelling was watching a wartime movie in which the Americans are the bad guys, even though, perversely, they are not the aggressors.[2]<\/p>\n

Recommended for fans of I Spit on Your Grave<\/u> if only it wasn’t about that<\/em>, people who think maybe a balanced view of history should have Americans as bad guys a little more often, and people who are into nihilistic futility.<\/p>\n

[1] I suppose this is where I should have already introduced the movie by plot. Some members of a Mohawk settlement and a British agitator, during the War of 1812, face off against revenge-bent Americans after an offscreen raid and burning of an American fort, somewhere near Mohawk territory, which, to be honest, I don’t know where that is\/was, exactly. Probably upstate New York?, after some unrelated research.
\n[2] Blah blah blah, but what I mean is, they are not the aggressors as shown in this snapshot<\/em> 24 or so hour period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Mohawk close on a week ago, but what with the falling trees, collapsing fences, narrowly averted gas explosions, recurrent gut infections, work overflows, and hospital visits, I just haven’t really made the appropriate time to think about it yet, much less talk about it. Today, though, today just may be that day! This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1239,30,1315],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-historical-drama","tag-horror","tag-shudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}