{"id":71,"date":"2018-10-23T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:48:02","slug":"a-temetetlen-halott-2005-09-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/10\/23\/a-temetetlen-halott-2005-09-03\/","title":{"rendered":"A Temetetlen Halott 2005-09-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The irony of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffm-montreal.org\/cgi-bin\/ffmfilms?Action=fest_detail&amp;num=16878&amp;lng=FR\">A Temetetlen Halott<\/a>&#8221; (&#8220;Unburied Remains&#8221; or &#8220;The Uninterred Corpse,&#8221; woodenly translated &#8220;The Unburied Man&#8221;)  is buried in its one good metaphor: that what tormented Imre Nagy (the abettor of the ill-fated and short-lived Hungarian uprising of 1956) the most at the end was that his (inevitable) posthumous rehabilitation would be at the hands of his own assassins (rehabilitating themselves).<\/p>\n<p>The film ends on the note that Imre Nagy&#8217;s exhumation and reburial with honours was not done until 1989, after the remains of the post-1956 regime had faded out (and on the very day his successor\/executioner J\u00e1nos K\u00e1d\u00e1r died). But it seems to be lost on the film-makers and the nation that the internecine squabbles among the true-believers (few) and the opportunists (many) about whether 1956 was a revolution or a counter-revolution had itself been just another incarnation of Hungary&#8217;s unburied cycle of red\/white &#8212; previously black-yellow\/red-white-green) oscillation and carnage. The same archetypes keep re-emerging, out of the self-same mother-soil and blood-types that the film is here whitewashing (in accordance with the current cycle), if not beatifying.  <\/p>\n<p>But Hungary is perhaps no worse than the rest of the planet in this regard, and certainly not the worst.<\/p>\n<p>The film itself, apart from a few moments of good character acting, is dead dialogue and dreary docudrama throughout.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Hungarians\">full disclosure<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irony of &#8220;A Temetetlen Halott&#8221; (&#8220;Unburied Remains&#8221; or &#8220;The Uninterred Corpse,&#8221; woodenly translated &#8220;The Unburied Man&#8221;) is buried in its one good metaphor: that what tormented Imre Nagy (the abettor of the ill-fated and short-lived Hungarian uprising of 1956) the most at the end was that his (inevitable) posthumous rehabilitation would be at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/10\/23\/a-temetetlen-halott-2005-09-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Temetetlen Halott 2005-09-03&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}