{"id":273,"date":"2013-09-30T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-09-30T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:28:53","slug":"review-forbidden-ground-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/30\/review-forbidden-ground-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Forbidden Ground (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Forbidden Ground<\/em> is a very interesting film about three British Soldiers trapped in no-mans<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_0258Forbbin-Grounds-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-274 alignright\" alt=\"MG_0258Forbbin-Grounds-1-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MG_0258Forbbin-Grounds-1-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> land during World War I. Starring and directed by\u00a0Johan Earl (indeed watching the credits its apparent he did everything except make the tea) with a cast of little known actors giving very good performances.<\/p>\n<p>The film tended to veer more towards the action of the piece, rather than the futility we are used to seeing in films about the futile World War I conflict. There was certainly enough mud and dismemberment to hint at these things but little development was gone into on this theme.<\/p>\n<p>Running alongside the main story we find out that one of the soldiers wives has been a bit naughty while he is away and is busily shopping around trying to get an illegal abortion. I guess I can sort of see that this was an attempt to show that the war affected everyone in bad ways, but I frankly found it a bit annoying alongside the heroic battlefield story they were trying to tell. The final twist is interesting of course, I won&#8217;t spoil it for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbidden Ground is a very interesting film about three British Soldiers trapped in no-mans land during World War I. Starring and directed by\u00a0Johan Earl (indeed watching the credits its apparent he did everything except make the tea) with a cast of little known actors giving very good performances. The film tended to veer more towards &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/09\/30\/review-forbidden-ground-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Forbidden Ground (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}