{"id":345,"date":"2007-03-11T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T14:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=345"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:09:47","slug":"big_screen_the_-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/big_screen_the_-27.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: The Lives of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German flick that won the foreign language Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Really, really good.  About secrets and trust, and oppression and cohersion.  About a sad lonely man who finds himself making unexpected decisions.  About figuring out the game.  When is one a pawn, and when is one the chess player?<\/p>\n<p>Sad.  And bleak, that deep grey institutional graffiti-ed bleakness that you may recall from old books or films you haven&#8217;t seen in a long time about that particular point in German\/world history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As my dad says frequently, &#8220;I miss the Cold War.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German flick that won the foreign language Oscar. Really, really good. About secrets and trust, and oppression and cohersion. About a sad lonely man who finds himself making unexpected decisions. About figuring out the game. When is one a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/big_screen_the_-27.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}