{"id":2357,"date":"2007-03-15T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2007-03-15T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:44:49","slug":"shortbus-some-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Shortbus: Some Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shortbus\" title=\"Shortbus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/07157.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nI watched John Cameron Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shortbusthemovie.com\/\"><strong>Shortbus<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; last night. It tells the story of New Yorkers looking for love and connection in the post 9\/11 city. You might have heard of this movie because it features sex &#8230; graphic, in your face sex. I must confess that even in the confines of my home, I felt dirty and sorta pervy watching this film. The film wastes no time in hitting you in the face with it either. I guess the opening sequence was devised just to slap you and say &#8220;Yes, we are going to show you a little bit of everything.&#8221; I do feel like I need to watch &#8220;Shortbus&#8221; again now that the initial sex shock is past me and I can totally focus on the characters. The movie, to me, is somewhat of a downer. I have read some reviews that talk about the &#8220;uplifting&#8221; ending, but I came away with more a down feeling when the credits rolled. It&#8217;s like Justin Bond says at one point, &#8220;It&#8217;s just like the 60&#8217;s &#8230; only with less hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Stickles!\" title=\"Peter Stickles!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/07158.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nAnd on a totally shallow note, I will say that my major disappointment with the movie is that the super cute <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm1594672\/\"><strong>Peter Stickles<\/strong><\/a> (he plays Caleb) wasn&#8217;t nearly naked enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched John Cameron Mitchell&#8217;s &#8220;Shortbus&#8221; last night. It tells the story of New Yorkers looking for love and connection in the post 9\/11 city. You might have heard of this movie because it features sex &#8230; graphic, in your face sex. I must confess that even in the confines of my home, I felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-C1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}