{"id":10105,"date":"2015-08-18T20:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2015-08-10T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:26:23","slug":"beyond-the-lights-2014-gina-prince-bythewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10105","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Lights (2014, Gina Prince-Bythewood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romance between a cop and a singer.  Pop star Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9195\">Belle<\/a><\/em>) is following the pop-star routine prescribed by her manager\/mother (Minnie Driver), her label, her producers and her mandated rapper boyfriend, then is saved from a suicide attempt by local hero cop Kaz (Nate Parker of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8100\">Red Hook Summer<\/a><\/em>), who&#8217;s got his own problems, what with political aspirations and people shooting at him, but nobody at work seems to mind when he and Noni disappear on a beach getaway where she rediscovers what she liked about singing (via Nina Simone songs).<\/p>\n<p>Mostly it&#8217;s a decent-enough positive-message romance flick, but low-budget flicks with mostly black casts don&#8217;t play Nebraska often, so it seemed worth rooting for.  Four stars from The Dissolve, too: &#8220;beneath the shiny surface of music-video imagery and true-loveisms lie some provocative ideas and deep truths about how people relate on a private level vs. a public one.&#8221;  Writer\/director also made <em>Love &#038; Basketball<\/em> and <em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em>.  Probably nothing to this, but I just realized Minnie Driver&#8217;s character is named Macy Jean, and there are singers named Macy Gray and Jean Grae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romance between a cop and a singer. Pop star Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw of Belle) is following the pop-star routine prescribed by her manager\/mother (Minnie Driver), her label, her producers and her mandated rapper boyfriend, then is saved from a suicide attempt by local hero cop Kaz (Nate Parker of Red Hook Summer), who&#8217;s got his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,534,607],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-pop-music","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10133,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}