{"id":36063,"date":"2022-06-04T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36063"},"modified":"2022-06-04T16:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T21:00:49","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/04\/belated-movie-reviews-757\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robot_%26_Frank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36150 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?resize=406%2C228&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/robot-and-frank.jpg?resize=250%2C140&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a>Robot and Frank<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2012) is, despite the robot, a conventional tale of the aging mind, vitiated by a changing focus. Who is Frank? Frank is a retired thief, an expert at lockpicks, especially that of safes.<\/p>\n<p>And Robot? It&#8217;s an artificial intelligence paired with a capable body, tasked with helping Frank with the serious infirmities of old age. When Frank indicates that &#8216;casing the joint&#8217; has enthused him, Robot is willing to help, learning the fine craft of thievery.<\/p>\n<p>Notice I didn&#8217;t say Robot was &#8216;happy to help&#8217;, nor &#8216;reluctant to help.&#8217; Robot is Robot, for what it&#8217;s worth, and it&#8217;s the escapades Robot enables which function as the cautionary tale considering naive robots.<\/p>\n<p>Until the climax, when the requisite plot twist has nothing to do with Robot, absolutely nothing. This mistaken change of focus leaves the audience dissatisfied, as Robot is reduced from a new societal factor to be considered to merely a prop.<\/p>\n<p>And that makes <em><strong>Robot and Frank<\/strong><\/em> disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robot and Frank (2012) is, despite the robot, a conventional tale of the aging mind, vitiated by a changing focus. Who is Frank? Frank is a retired thief, an expert at lockpicks, especially that of safes. And Robot? It&#8217;s an artificial intelligence paired with a capable body, tasked with helping \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/04\/belated-movie-reviews-757\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-36063","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\/36063","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=36063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36151,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions\/36151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}