{"id":49900,"date":"2016-11-13T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2016-11-13T20:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T20:49:42","slug":"loving-revisits-a-landmark-supreme-court-case-with-radical-restraint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49900","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Loving\u2019 revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/goingoutguide\/movies\/loving-revisits-a-landmark-supreme-court-case-with-radical-restraint\/2016\/11\/10\/244881d8-a4f7-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Loving\u2019 revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnHornaday\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ann Hornaday<\/strong><\/a>, Film Critic<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/goingoutguide\/four-star-movies-of-the-year\/2015\/09\/24\/97e281aa-9f86-11e1-8867-10efeff6a18b_gallery.html?_template=gallery-embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loving_(2016_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Loving<\/a>\u2019\u00a0is a quietly radical movie. A portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, who became unwitting activists for interracial marriage when they wed in 1958, this gentle, deeply affecting story dispenses with the usual conventions of stirring appeals to the audience\u2019s social conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers expecting a climactic showdown at the United States Supreme Court \u2014 which in 1967 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">handed down the landmark decision<\/a> bearing the Lovings\u2019 name, declaring anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional \u2014 or highly pitched speeches about civil rights, privacy and marriage equality will be surprised by a film that steadfastly avoids the most obvious and tempting theatrical manipulations. Instead, viewers are confronted by something far more revolutionary and transformative, in the form of two people\u2019s devotion to each other, and the deep-seated psychological and state forces driven to derangement by that purest emotional truth.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1799233\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Buirski\u2019s<\/a> wonderful 2012 HBO documentary \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=20142\" target=\"_blank\">The Loving Story<\/a>\u201d and judiciously dramatized by writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Nichols\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Nichols<\/a>, \u201cLoving\u201d gets underway just as Richard (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joel_Edgerton\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Edgerton<\/a>) and Mildred (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Negga\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Negga<\/a>) decide to get married, after Mildred discovers she\u2019s pregnant. A longtime couple in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginias-caroline-county-symbolic-of-main-street-usa\/2012\/01\/26\/gIQAKH0z2Q_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the rural town of Central Point, Va.<\/a>, Richard and Mildred reflect the organic ethnic integration of a community in which white, black and Native American citizens routinely befriended and relied on each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/goingoutguide\/movies\/loving-revisits-a-landmark-supreme-court-case-with-radical-restraint\/2016\/11\/10\/244881d8-a4f7-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Loving\u2019 revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint The Washington Post 2016-11-10 Ann Hornaday, Film Critic \u2018Loving\u2019\u00a0is a quietly radical movie. A portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, who became unwitting activists for interracial marriage when they wed in 1958, this gentle, deeply affecting story dispenses with the usual conventions of stirring appeals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,5,459,8,20,693],"tags":[25405,20082,20081,70,5034,827,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-49900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-ann-hornaday","tag-jeff-nichols","tag-joel-edgerton","tag-loving-v-virginia","tag-nancy-buirski","tag-ruth-negga","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49902,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions\/49902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}