{"id":4006,"date":"2005-11-04T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2005-11-04T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T10:16:00","slug":"the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/zissou.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/320\/zissou.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Second &#8216;Mersea Island Moving Images&#8217; night last night &#8211; we watched (all six of us) the Steve Zissou experience.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Maybe I&#8217;ve missed something, but it seemed like a lot of artifice in search of a good editor. It had plot &#8211; a good plot &#8211; but it seemed to get distracted with exploring characterisation when the characterisation (despite great actors) was not enough to sustain interest. In other words I didn&#8217;t actually care about the people involved.<\/p>\n<p>It was as if it hadn&#8217;t made up it&#8217;s mind whether to be a whimsical piece of fantasy, or an engagement with real humanity. Either one of those would have been a great film. But this wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second &#8216;Mersea Island Moving Images&#8217; night last night &#8211; we watched (all six of us) the Steve Zissou experience. Hmm. Maybe I&#8217;ve missed something, but it seemed like a lot of artifice in search of a good editor. It had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4006","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-12C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","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=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}