{"id":4457,"date":"2012-07-22T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:07:47","slug":"bigness-and-messiness-and-problematicness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/bigness-and-messiness-and-problematicness\/","title":{"rendered":"bigness and messiness and problematicness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from joel lovell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/24\/magazine\/kenneth-lonergans-thwarted-masterpiece.html?pagewanted=all\">article <\/a>about kenneth lonergan&#8217;s film &#8220;margaret&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s something in the very conception of \u201cMargaret,\u201d in the themes it most ambitiously pursues, that defies perfection. If \u201cYou Can Count On Me\u201d was a sublimely wrought depiction of a fragile dynamic between two siblings, \u201cMargaret\u201d is that writ large \u2014 played out not in a single family or a small town, but among ever-widening and interconnected circles of lives, their private dramas constantly thrumming and colliding. Yes, it\u2019s a big, messy, problematic film. And it\u2019s one that, with a precision and insight and empathy and large-heartedness you almost never find in movies anymore, captures the bigness and messiness and problematicness of life, and does it in a profound and lingering way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from joel lovell&#8217;s article about kenneth lonergan&#8217;s film &#8220;margaret&#8221;: There\u2019s something in the very conception of \u201cMargaret,\u201d in the themes it most ambitiously pursues, that defies perfection. If \u201cYou Can Count On Me\u201d was a sublimely wrought depiction of a fragile dynamic between two siblings, \u201cMargaret\u201d is that writ large \u2014 played out not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}