{"id":1169,"date":"2009-04-07T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:30:46","slug":"big_screen_the_-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/big_screen_the_-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: The Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how I was blissfully unaware going into this movie that hello it&#8217;s about the fucking Nazis.  (Generally I cannot watch Holocaust-related movies as the sobbing and the crying just get out of control.  Yup, I&#8217;m a crier.)  Maybe because this and that suburbia movie with Leo were released so close together?  Not sure, but somehow I just had no idea what this one was about.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Winslet was totally entrancing and I really loved the sloooooow revelation of the movie, how you suddenly come to realize what the kid suddenly comes to realize.  To someone who&#8217;s been thinking a lot about the particular relevant issue* these days (long story), the &#8220;middle&#8221; of the story was done so nicely.  Not an easy thing to portray on film.<\/p>\n<p>The ending was really quite beautiful in its very sadly devastating way.<\/p>\n<p>*That bit&#8217;s a big spoiler so I&#8217;ve tried to be vague as it&#8217;s worth not &#8220;knowing&#8221; going in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how I was blissfully unaware going into this movie that hello it&#8217;s about the fucking Nazis. (Generally I cannot watch Holocaust-related movies as the sobbing and the crying just get out of control. Yup, I&#8217;m a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/big_screen_the_-3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}