{"id":10482,"date":"2016-07-15T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:25:22","slug":"ecstatic-dance-i-review-the-fits-a-stunning-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/07\/ecstatic-dance-i-review-the-fits-a-stunning-film.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ecstatic Dance&#8221;: I review &#8220;The Fits,&#8221; A Stunning Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>review at First Things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anna Rose Holmer\u2019s extraordinary new film <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERCTZL7QPhc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Fits<\/a><\/i> begins with a young girl whose body obeys her will implicitly. \u201cOne,\u201d eleven-year-old Toni (Royal Hightower) counts, as she pulls herself into a sit-up in the very center of the frame. \u201cTwo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She works her body, grunting and gasping and twisting just a little with the effort, all the way past twenty. Then it\u2019s time to box. She spars with her older brother (Da\u2019Sean Minor): She is a child, a disciple. She helps him clean the gym. She does as she\u2019s told, controlled and capable. This is the supple will of the athlete, taking orders from her coach and giving orders to her body. But no eleven-year-old girl will be able to control her body for long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2016\/07\/ecstatic-dance\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer\u2019s extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a young girl whose body obeys her will implicitly. \u201cOne,\u201d eleven-year-old Toni (Royal Hightower) counts, as she pulls herself into a sit-up in the very center of the frame. \u201cTwo.\u201d She works her body, grunting and gasping and twisting just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17,381,292,72,16,64,113],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-children-will-listen","tag-girls-like-violence","tag-i-believe-in-ecstasy","tag-in-the-flesh","tag-on-beauty-and-being-dust","tag-sublimity-now","tag-woman-is-the-irony-of-the-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Ecstatic Dance&quot;: I review &quot;The Fits,&quot; 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