{"id":2589,"date":"2015-10-28T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:32:23","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/28\/belated-movie-reviews-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Douglas stars in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detective_Story_%281951_film%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Detective Story<\/em><\/a> (1951), a sordid, even noirish slice-of-life story centered on a day at the 21st police precinct of New York City.\u00a0 Various petty and not-so-petty characters wander on and off the stage, exhibiting motivations obscure and troubling, while Douglas struggles with a rigid, unforgiving, and ultimately unrealistic moral code which drives him and his wife to the edge of destruction, and then tumbles them over the railing in a welter of awkward knees and elbows.\u00a0 Well-acted, well-paced, with a denouement ultimately depressing and accepting, it brings to mind questions of purpose vs fufillment, contrasting character motivations which leaves one wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Douglas stars in Detective Story (1951), a sordid, even noirish slice-of-life story centered on a day at the 21st police precinct of New York City.\u00a0 Various petty and not-so-petty characters wander on and off the stage, exhibiting motivations obscure and troubling, while Douglas struggles with a rigid, unforgiving, and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/28\/belated-movie-reviews-7\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}