{"id":2538,"date":"2007-09-24T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2007-09-24T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T19:11:35","slug":"eastern-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eastern Promises\" title=\"Eastern Promises\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/07340.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nFranke and I checked out &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.focusfeatures.com\/easternpromises\/\"><strong>Eastern Promises<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; last night. I really, really liked it even though (I think) it&#8217;s one of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Cronenberg\"><strong>David Cronenberg<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s most straightforward films.  The story is interesting and all the actors do a really nice job in the movie. I have never been a big <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viggo_Mortensen\"><strong>Viggo<\/strong><\/a> fan &#8230; but Cronenberg does seem to bring out the great actor in him (see also &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_History_of_Violence_(film)\"><strong>A History of Violence<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;). Though I don&#8217;t think it quite matches the brilliance of his films from the 80&#8217;s &#8230; it&#8217;s definitely worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franke and I checked out &#8220;Eastern Promises&#8221; last night. I really, really liked it even though (I think) it&#8217;s one of David Cronenberg&#8216;s most straightforward films. The story is interesting and all the actors do a really nice job in the movie. I have never been a big Viggo fan &#8230; but Cronenberg does seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-EW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}