{"id":4491,"date":"2010-12-30T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2010-12-30T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:54:32","slug":"a-single-man-as-a-double-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/12\/30\/a-single-man-as-a-double-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Single Man as a double movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1315981\/\">A Single Man<\/a> was a black comedy, even after reading several reviews.<\/p>\n<p>I especially enjoyed the sequence in which the protagonist, George, fusses with his pillow so as to get comfortable enough to shoot a gun into his mouth. Like, can you really get comfortable enough to kill yourself? It&#8217;s a conceit that reminded me of Samuel Beckett. (Other nice tells: the bomb shelter insert, the golden shower revenge fantasy, putting the parting gift to his housekeeper inside the package of sliced bread she likes to keep in the freezer.)<\/p>\n<p>Not that the movie is fully confident with its sense of humor. For instance, the music, while excellent, pushes it towards a solemnity that the plot and much of the dialogue defies. It&#8217;s as if there were two directors or, perhaps more likely, two different points of view in the production as to how the movie would play out with audiences. <\/p>\n<p>If so, I wonder who pushed for the comedy and who for the tragedy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea the movie A Single Man was a black comedy, even after reading several reviews. I especially enjoyed the sequence in which the protagonist, George, fusses with his pillow so as to get comfortable enough to shoot a gun into his mouth. Like, can you really get comfortable enough to kill yourself?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}