{"id":4184,"date":"2012-03-21T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:47:23","slug":"art-house-double-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=4184","title":{"rendered":"Art House Double Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Melancholia\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/12130.jpg?resize=505%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Melancholia&#8221;<\/strong> (Lars von Trier, 2011)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the end of the world as only that crazy Dane can tell it &#8230; but really it&#8217;s about Justine&#8217;s all consuming depression and her reaction\/acceptance to the &#8220;end of all things.&#8221; I have re-watched this since it came out on video and I thought it was even better the second time around. Charlotte Gainsbourg is excellent as Justine&#8217;s sister, Claire. Kirsten Dunst, as Justine, is pretty amazing in this movie. It&#8217;s a damn shame that the Academy didn&#8217;t show her any Oscar love this past year. She at least deserved a nomination.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Skin I Live In\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/12131.jpg?resize=505%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"338\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Skin I Live In&#8221;<\/strong> (Pedro Almod\u00f3var, 2011)<br \/>\nAlmod\u00f3var does &#8220;horror&#8221; &#8230; or does he? An elite plastic surgeon (played by Antonio Banderas) has a beautiful woman (played by Elena Anaya) held captive for his experiments with a new synthetic skin. What unfolds is a story of madness, suicide, murder and revenge. &#8220;The Skin I Live In&#8221; has horrific elements to it but to simply call it a horror movie would be missing the point. I think it&#8217;s more of a character study and about how sometimes we can&#8217;t (or won&#8217;t) let ourselves escape from the past. It&#8217;s another excellent film from one of my favorite directors &#8230; and the less you know going in, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Melancholia&#8221; (Lars von Trier, 2011) It&#8217;s the end of the world as only that crazy Dane can tell it &#8230; but really it&#8217;s about Justine&#8217;s all consuming depression and her reaction\/acceptance to the &#8220;end of all things.&#8221; I have re-watched this since it came out on video and I thought it was even better the [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-15u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","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=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}