{"id":4991,"date":"2009-06-27T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2009-06-27T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T17:48:00","slug":"the-best-non-date-movie-youll-see-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"The Best Non-Date Movie You&#8217;ll See This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <em>The Stoning of Soraya M <\/em>at the Uptown last night.<\/p>\n<p>First things first; it&#8217;s a harrowing movie.\u00a0 As in <em>Passion of the Christ <\/em>harrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Too harrowing, at this remove, to really write a coherent review.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll come soon.<\/p>\n<p>But do yourself a favor; ignore the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;oi=news_result&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsbusters.org%2Fblogs%2Fclay-waters%2F2009%2F06%2F26%2Fny-times-calls-stoning-soraya-m-film-lurid-torture-porn&#038;ei=dFlGSoffEYaGNqjfrZsB&#038;usg=AFQjCNFavc1qZNj3titohl9tedIAbHHyBQ&#038;sig2=mNHFYDmmVoN9SV4KzYzvig\"><em>NYTimes&#8217; <\/em>specious review<\/a>.\u00a0 The <em>Times <\/em>writes the movie off as &#8216;Torture-Porn&#8221;.\u00a0 They hit the point and still it completely; the village men doing the stoning <em>were acting as if they were taking part in pornography<\/em>.\u00a0 That is <em>exactly the point<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at the Uptown again tonight.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the feel-good hit of the summer &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen a group walk out of a building looking so emotionally smacked around since the Holocaust Museum.<\/p>\n<p>But it is <em>so <\/em>good.\u00a0 An amazing movie.\u00a0 Go if you get the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw The Stoning of Soraya M at the Uptown last night. First things first; it&#8217;s a harrowing movie.\u00a0 As in Passion of the Christ harrowing. Too harrowing, at this remove, to really write a coherent review.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll come soon. But do yourself a favor; ignore the NYTimes&#8217; specious review.\u00a0 The Times writes the movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-war-on-terror","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}