{"id":1548,"date":"2003-11-08T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/11\/08\/1548.html"},"modified":"2003-11-08T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T20:08:25","slug":"royal-tenenbaums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/11\/08\/royal-tenenbaums\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Tenenbaums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'd heard mixed reviews of <cite>The Royal Tenenbaums,<\/cite> so I was a little dubious going into it.  And I'd had a grumpy and fretful evening.  But the movie turned out to be just what I needed to cheer me up: charming, whimsical, occasionally very funny, and extremely quirky.  Among other things, the dalmatian mice made me laugh every time they appeared onscreen.<\/p>\n<p>It's true that there's plenty to dislike about most of the characters.  But for me, I thought that even the ones I disliked acquired a certain pathos by the end; I could sympathize with them even if I wouldn't want to have to interact with them in real life.  And the quirky stylized tone&#8212;voice-over narration, \"chapter\" titles marked with pages from an imaginary book version of the story, off-the-wall camera techniques, silly character quirks&#8212;really worked well for me; somehow, instead of the distancing effect I'd have expected, it made the characters more sympathetic for me.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, not Brilliant Cinema, and the oddness of the timing sometimes leaves dead moments as if they were expecting a laugh that I wasn't providing; but overall a solid movie, well worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>Reminded me in some ways of <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0114798\/\">Unstrung Heroes<\/a>,<\/cite> though I liked <cite>Heroes<\/cite> significantly more.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard mixed reviews of The Royal Tenenbaums, so I was a little dubious going into it. And I&#8217;d had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}