{"id":3119,"date":"2006-11-30T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2006-11-30T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T15:35:00","slug":"the-punisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"The Punisher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another film I caught on Sky+ the other day. Was familiar with the basic plot, so I fast-forwarded through the ‘set-up’, because I didn’t particularly want to watch the death of the family (which is the fuel for the vengeance cycle) – isn’t it strange how I find some things much too painful to watch (deaths of children) but some things (eg Evil Dead) don’t reach me at all. Hmm.<\/p>\n

I was struck by the mini-community of misfits which help the hero. Could read it through a ‘selfish-gene’\/killer ape analysis, which simply hymns the alpha male; but could also see it as a miniature parable of the kingdom, a vision of the church.<\/p>\n

But the film was bubblegum. Not worth watching unless you particularly like comic-book adaptations (which I do) – and even then, this isn’t one of the better ones. Travolta is crap in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another film I caught on Sky+ the other day. Was familiar with the basic plot, so I fast-forwarded through the ‘set-up’, because I didn’t particularly want to watch the death of the family (which is the fuel for the vengeance … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Oj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}