{"id":7136,"date":"2013-05-16T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:07:43","slug":"no-place-to-stand-i-review-the-reluctant-fundamentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/05\/no-place-to-stand-i-review-the-reluctant-fundamentalist.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Place to Stand&#8221;: I review &#8220;The Reluctant Fundamentalist&#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 AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both the title and the trailer of Mira Nair\u2019s \u201cThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Films\/films_frameset.asp?id=124514\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">now playing in DC at the E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema<\/a>) suggest that this will be the story of how a man becomes a fundamentalist: how a young-gun New York financier, humiliated and mistreated after 9\/11, turns his back on America and returns to Pakistan to become an Islamic terrorist. This is not the actual story of the film. In a sense the movie has too much story for this summary, and the protagonist, Changez Khan (a changeable, intense Riz Ahmed), gets trapped in the conflicting interpretations by which other people file down his life into intelligibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/no-place-to-stand-the-reluctant-fundamentalist\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at AmCon: Both the title and the trailer of Mira Nair\u2019s \u201cThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u201d (now playing in DC at the E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema) suggest that this will be the story of how a man becomes a fundamentalist: how a young-gun New York financier, humiliated and mistreated after 9\/11, turns his back 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