{"id":10897,"date":"2018-12-26T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2019-01-12T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:38:30","slug":"marshall-shaffer-says-dont-forget-did-you-wonder-who-fired-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/marshall-shaffer-says-dont-forget-did-you-wonder-who-fired-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Shaffer Says Don&#8217;t Forget: <i>Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,\u201d intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject of <strong><i>Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?<\/i><\/strong> \u201cGive it enough time and whiteness will incinerate the world.\u201d On its face, the documentary serves as a recounting of Wilkerson\u2019s journey to determine the veracity of family lore that his white grandfather killed a man in 1940s Alabama without consequences. But Wilkerson\u2019s investigation uncovers how the past is far from over or settled. Most obviously, he discovers that many in Alabama do not want him examining the state\u2019s sordid racial history. Yet the real revelation of <i>Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?<\/i> comes from Wilkerson subtly revealing how the present he observes stands as a direct result of the inequalities borne from white supremacy. Taken altogether, this documentary is the best extrapolation of a personal narrative to reflect upon societal phenomena since Sarah Polley\u2019s <i>Stories We Tell<\/i> \u2013 and a deeply discomfiting examination of white identity and privilege with the power to rattle viewers to their core.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,\u201d intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":10898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}