{"id":475,"date":"2003-11-03T21:03:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/11\/in_the_cut\/"},"modified":"2003-11-03T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:03:42","slug":"in_the_cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/in_the_cut\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0199626\/\">In The Cut<\/a> on a complete whim, as I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s greatest Jane Campion fan. <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0144715\/\">Holy Smoke<\/a> was so-so, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117364\/\">The Portrait of a Lady<\/a> a little dull and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107822\/\">The Piano<\/a> &#8211; well the music really made The Piano. I haven&#8217;t seen it since the first time I watched it, but I&#8217;ve listened to the soundtrack endlessly.<br \/>\nBut it had a couple of good reviews and I went along. Certainly we see Meg Ryan in a whole new light, and Mark Ruffalo is a very interesting actor. The photography is very stylised and quite beautiful, although all sorts of digital effects seem to have been applied.<br \/>\nBut the story is actually the sort of nonsense you expect to see on a late night Channel Five &#8220;erotic&#8221; thriller. In fact, this is what this film is &#8211; a classier version. Ryan suspects Ruffalo of getting a blow-job from the woman who died in a grissly murder, and still she goes out with him. Hmm. Doesn&#8217;t really make a great deal of sense does it?<br \/>\nThe case is wrapped up efficiently but it&#8217;s all a bit stale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see In The Cut on a complete whim, as I&#8217;m not the world&#8217;s greatest Jane Campion fan. Holy Smoke was so-so, The Portrait of a Lady a little dull and The Piano &#8211; well the music really made The Piano. I haven&#8217;t seen it since the first time I watched it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}