{"id":11172,"date":"2018-03-21T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2018-03-21T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:28:11","slug":"http-witches-gov-zm-i-review-i-am-not-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2018\/03\/http-witches-gov-zm-i-review-i-am-not-a-witch.html","title":{"rendered":"http:\/\/witches.gov.zm: I review &#8220;I Am Not a Witch&#8221;"},"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>at First Things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"drop-cap\">I<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6213284\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Am Not a Witch<\/a><\/em>, the brilliant feature debut of Zambian-Welsh writer and director Rungano Nyoni, is a satire with the haunting, surreal sensibility of a fairy tale. A little girl is accused of witchcraft, and driven on a forced journey through an entire society, from parched agrarian fields to a TV call-in talk show. Her enigmatic silence and possible magic powers expose the folly and wickedness of the adults around her\u2014and expose, also, the inevitable consequences of every faith. Internet pioneer John Gilmore famously said, \u201cThe Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.\u201d In <em>I Am Not a Witch<\/em> we see how every human society interprets its own beliefs as damage, and routes around them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/03\/witch-camp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at First Things: I Am Not a Witch, the brilliant feature debut of Zambian-Welsh writer and director Rungano Nyoni, is a satire with the haunting, surreal sensibility of a fairy tale. 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