{"id":8434,"date":"2020-05-23T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2020-05-23T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:10:57","slug":"review-military-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8434","title":{"rendered":"Review: MILITARY WIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The power of music boosts familiar tale<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-7-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/militarywives1-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/militarywives1-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/militarywives1-400x568.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/militarywives1-475x675.jpg 475w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/militarywives1.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music moves us. Whether it\u2019s the refined elegance of a classical melody or the unhinged chaos of punk music, harmony or lack thereof impacts the human psyche. Orchestrated sounds have healing properties.<br><br>The \u201cMilitary Wives\u201d based-on-real-life story might be familiar and manipulative, but the sincere theme of the power of music shines through.<br><br>When their spouses get shipped out to Afghanistan, an empty sadness lingers with the wives of the departed soldiers. The commander\u2019s wife, Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas), comes up with an idea to improve morale by starting a military wives\u2019 choir. Initially, the younger wives are hesitant to join in, but partially out of respect for the commander, they give it a go.<br><br>One wife, Lisa (Sharon Horgan), embraces the idea, but only if they try contemporary music. Since Kate is of an older generation, she insists on more traditional choices. Naturally, the younger voices get their way, and Kate proves that she\u2019s not as stuck-up as she, at first, appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Jonathan&#8217;s full review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/05\/military-wives-the-power-of-music-boosts-familiar-tale\">https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/05\/military-wives-the-power-of-music-boosts-familiar-tale<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of music lifts formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[120,1957],"class_list":["post-8434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-kristin-scott-thomas","tag-sharon-horgan","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8434\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}