{"id":109,"date":"2006-03-29T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:32:23","slug":"wanda-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Wanda (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You waitin&#8217; for somebody?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2-181x270.png 181w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Poster2.png 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter passively giving up custody of her children, a coal-mining wife (Barbara Loden) wanders into a life of crime with a gruff stranger she meets in a bar (Michael Higgins).  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character Studies<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>Heists<\/li>\n<li>Mining Towns<\/li>\n<li>Road Trip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis slow, honest film &#8212; regarded as &#8220;an interesting failure&#8221; upon its release &#8212; tells of a &#8220;passive, unskilled, uneducated, unambitious&#8221; woman with little sense of personal worth or agency.  The satisfaction Wanda (Loden) finds in assisting her new lover (Higgins) with a bank heist shows how desperately this demoralized woman longs to prove her utility in some way.  You&#8217;ll be frustrated and saddened when watching Wanda passively accept &#8220;the hostility, insults, and demands&#8221; placed upon her by Higgins (a total loser), but also intrigued by what will happen next. Indeed, as Peary notes, the grainy film &#8212; shot in 16 mm &#8212; has &#8220;the look and feel of a documentary&#8221; made with a hidden camera, thus adding to the feeling that one is watching &#8220;real life&#8221; unfolding, frame by frame.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Loden&#8217;s understated performance as Wanda<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Loden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Loden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Loden.jpg 498w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Loden-128x97.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Wanda-Loden-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, for its historical importance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0067961\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2003wand.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/wanda\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/95043\/wanda#articles-reviews?articleId=413232\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You waitin&#8217; for somebody?&#8221; Synopsis: After passively giving up custody of her children, a coal-mining wife (Barbara Loden) wanders into a life of crime with a gruff stranger she meets in a bar (Michael Higgins). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Character Studies Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues Heists Mining Towns Road Trip Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: This slow, honest film &#8212; regarded as &#8220;an interesting failure&#8221; upon its release &#8212; tells of a &#8220;passive, unskilled, uneducated, unambitious&#8221; woman with little sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=109\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62267,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/62267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}