{"id":2101,"date":"2019-09-25T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:48:09","slug":"this-short-film-isnt-really-all-that-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/09\/this-short-film-isnt-really-all-that-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"This short film isn\u2019t really all that disturbing\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u2026unless you\u2019ve ever had or been a child or parent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In that case, whoa<i>damn!!!<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqyCMONgVI8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>The Strange Thing About the Johnsons<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from Ari Aster, the writer\/director of <em>Hereditary<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Vnghdsjmd0\"><em>Midsommar<\/em><\/a>\u2014the latter of which I <strong>loved<\/strong>, although plausibly for <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/ari-aster-midsommar-review\/\">different reasons than most<\/a>.\u00a0 To me, it wasn\u2019t a revenge film at all.\u00a0 There\u2019s a crop of female-lead horror films surfacing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5-S3JqJZJ3s\"><em>A Dark Song<\/em><\/a> is another that leaps to mind) that are tremendous explorations of how one processes trauma.\u00a0 <em>Midsommar<\/em> is mos def one of these, in my humble\u2014and, in a deeply morally ambiguous way, sort of an optimistic film, when all is said and done.\u00a0 <strong><em>Highly Recommended.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026unless you\u2019ve ever had or been a child or parent.\u00a0 In that case, whoadamn!!! The Strange Thing About the Johnsons This is from Ari Aster, the writer\/director of Hereditary and Midsommar\u2014the latter of which I loved, although plausibly for different reasons than most.\u00a0 To me, it wasn\u2019t a revenge film at all.\u00a0 There\u2019s a crop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/09\/this-short-film-isnt-really-all-that-disturbing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This short film isn\u2019t really all that disturbing\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[95,394,393,30,328],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}