{"id":9716,"date":"2014-09-19T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9716"},"modified":"2014-09-19T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T19:13:57","slug":"murder-in-paradise-the-galapagos-affair-satan-came-to-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9716","title":{"rendered":"Murder in Paradise &#8211; The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GalapagosAffair_newspiece.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9729\" alt=\"GalapagosAffair_newspiece\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GalapagosAffair_newspiece.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GalapagosAffair_newspiece.jpg 450w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GalapagosAffair_newspiece-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine&#8217;s documentary of a likely murder and set of tragic circumstances that befell three sets of stubborn German settlers on the island of Floreana in the Galapagos during the 1930s is a textbook example of what happens when filmmakers are overwhelmed by too much material &#8211; archival and anecdotal &#8211; and try to work in a bit of everything, disrupting the flow and focus of their original story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In spite of the many flaws within <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9699\"><strong>The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden<\/strong><\/a> (2013), when we&#8217;re back on track to discovering the likely murders within paradise, the film is truly hypnotic, mostly because the directors lucked out with an extraordinary wealth of ephemeral materials. Zeitgeist Films&#8217; DVD contains solid extras, and I address the film&#8217;s many pros &amp; cons in my review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> a podcast interview with composer \/ orchestrator Timothy Williams (<strong>Red Sky<\/strong>, <strong>Debug<\/strong>) + links to the animated montages and making-of details.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD review of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine&#8217;s latest documentary, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013), from Zeitgeist Films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3039,3040,2562,2563,3041],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GalapagosAffair_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2wI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9734,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions\/9734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}