{"id":72,"date":"2007-09-22T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/movie_eastern_promises\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T22:00:38","slug":"movie_eastern_promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/movie_eastern_promises\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Word Review: Eastern Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soloShot\" id=\"image71\" src=\"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/eastern_promises_movie.jpg\" alt=\"Viggo Mortenson in David Cronenburg's 'Eastern Promises'\" \/>Eastern Promises, an exercise in minimalist plot, succeeds due to delicate acting and stoic directing.  It&#8217;s got the villian, anti-hero, idealist, and the fairly obvious Twist, but saves itself from mediocrity by telling only the important parts of the story.  Cronenburg&#8217;s films succeed because they leave you with questions, not answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Promises, an exercise in minimalist plot, succeeds due to delicate acting and stoic directing. It&#8217;s got the villian, anti-hero, idealist, and the fairly obvious Twist, but saves itself from mediocrity by telling only the important parts of the story. Cronenburg&#8217;s films succeed because they leave you with questions, not answers.<\/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":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}