{"id":730,"date":"2008-01-04T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=730"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T20:27:27","slug":"big_screen_aton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/01\/big_screen_aton.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Atonement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>As faithful to the book as possible, given that it&#8217;s a film (is that not self explanatory?).  Great performances.  Nostalgically lovely to look at (1940s. Ah.).  As (momentarily) romantic and sexy as can be&#8230;and then as heartbreaking and painful and&#8230;  And it&#8217;s really that good.  <a href=\"http:\/\/listeningtofrogs.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/02\/fairytale-uniforms\/\">Cee <\/a>thinks so too.  As she points out, the &#8220;incidental&#8221; music&#8230;is just great.  The staccato typing?  Wow.  The back\/forth juxtaposition to resolve disparate points of view?  Done so well.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, the book?  ALSO THAT GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>Keira Knightly. James McAvoy.  Joe Wright (director).  <strong>Well done.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful. Breathtaking. As faithful to the book as possible, given that it&#8217;s a film (is that not self explanatory?). Great performances. Nostalgically lovely to look at (1940s. Ah.). As (momentarily) romantic and sexy as can be&#8230;and then as heartbreaking and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/01\/big_screen_aton.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":[13,8,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-flicks","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}