{"id":42444,"date":"2024-01-23T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42444"},"modified":"2024-01-23T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:10:43","slug":"my-son-went-quiet-2023-slamdance-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/my-son-went-quiet-2023-slamdance-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Son Went Quiet (2023) [Slamdance 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mysonwentquiet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mysonwentquiet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mysonwentquiet.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mysonwentquiet-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mysonwentquiet-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Slamdance Film Festival runs Digitally and In-Person from January 19<sup>th<\/sup> to January 28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Ian Bawa\u2019s short film is a very sad and gut wrenching drama about grief and how we deal with a major loss in our lives. Bawa\u2019s film is a half documentary half fictional tale through the eyes of an East Asian man who just lost his wife. After her sad unfortunate death, he and his son struggle to cope, but he falls silent. The pair go through various doctors who rule him \u201csick in the head\u201d despite feeling immense loss from his mother.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eventually he begins to talk to a shadow that he is convinced is his mother, and soon his father also begins to see the shadow. \u201cMy Son Went Quiet\u201d is a very heartbreaking movie that approaches the concept of loss and death in various shades that will definitely arouse conversation from the audience. Maybe his son has gone silent because he\u2019s sick in the head. Or maybe it\u2019s just society\u2019s vilification of mental illness and the unwillingness to allow men to grieve properly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Perhaps he\u2019s manifesting his mother\u2019s presence because he wasn\u2019t allowed to mourn her and convey his emotions. There are so many depictions of the main character weeping in the dark, mourning his wife, and then having to put on a strong front for his son and generally everyone else. Grief can take on so many forms, and our brains can elicit so many bizarre manners of coping with loss. Nonetheless, \u201cMy Son Went Quiet\u201d is a really depressing film, but one that shows how denying our feelings about loss can manifest in unusual ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slamdance Film Festival runs Digitally and In-Person from January 19th to January 28th. Director Ian Bawa\u2019s short film is a very sad and gut wrenching drama about grief and how we deal with a major loss in our lives. Bawa\u2019s film is a half documentary half fictional tale through the eyes of an East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2655],"tags":[302,501,938],"class_list":["post-42444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-slamdance","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42447,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42444\/revisions\/42447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}