{"id":421,"date":"2007-05-22T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:13:36","slug":"big_screen_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/big_screen_away.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Away from Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to know going in, if the movie is about Alzheimer&#8217;s, you might as well bring a box of kleenex with you.  Julie Christie was great, and still so beautiful and luminescent at <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0001046\/\">65<\/a>.  First time writing &#038; directing by Sarah Polley = pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it was one of those movies that while totally going with the story and enjoying it while watching, afterward I just kept thinking about certain of the plot manipulations and how unnecessary they were.  i.e., I could see a reason for them being there, but felt my reaction to the chain of events and the situation would have been just as powerful\/effective WITHOUT those external plot manipulations.  And if they stick out as manipulations, then do they really work?   Worth seeing, will definitely look forward to Polley&#8217;s next project. But think there were several things that could just be dropped out of the plot without any discernable loss to the viewer&#8217;s experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got to know going in, if the movie is about Alzheimer&#8217;s, you might as well bring a box of kleenex with you. Julie Christie was great, and still so beautiful and luminescent at 65. First time writing &#038; directing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/05\/big_screen_away.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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","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\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}