{"id":19,"date":"2007-04-03T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2007\/04\/03\/19\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T13:03:26","slug":"19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/04\/03\/19\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0390384\/\" title=\"'My theory of why Time Travel is impossible.'  IMDB message boards are great.\">Primer<\/a>, with the expected result.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/images\/calvin_revolutions.gif\" alt=\"Calvin is confused!\" title=\"Primer makes RPM explanations seem simple.\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m going to read the plot breakdown before I watch it again (yes, of course it&#8217;s on Internet; no, I&#8217;m not going to link to it).  Mom claims that catch-what-you-can plots are the only kind I like, which is not quite true:  I also like plots where good people do their best to destroy each other for perfectly good reasons.  And romantic comedies.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody compared Primer to Memento, but I think Primer is superior&#8211;both by its refusal to spell things out and by the fact that it doesn&#8217;t rely on a weird structure to screw with you.  Rethinking a lot of things about structure, lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally watched Primer, with the expected result. I guess I&#8217;m going to read the plot breakdown before I watch it again (yes, of course it&#8217;s on Internet; no, I&#8217;m not going to link to it). Mom claims that catch-what-you-can plots are the only kind I like, which is not quite true: I also like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obsessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}