{"id":10775,"date":"2016-01-22T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10775"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:28:57","slug":"wild-tales-2014-damian-szifron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10775","title":{"rendered":"Wild Tales (2014, Dami\u00e1n Szifr\u00f3n)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five stories of People Driven To The Brink: a great opening segment set on a plane, then four mediocre, pointless segments.  Kinda fun to watch for a while, but I can&#8217;t believe the acclaim this thing got.  Went up against <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9846\">Leviathan<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9844\">Timbuktu<\/a><\/em> and the winner <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9286\">Ida<\/a><\/em> for the foreign oscar.  I guess its defenders hoped the artistically-serious vote would cancel itself out and the goofball candidate would take the prize.<\/p>\n<p>First episode has a flight full of people who gradually realize that they all know the same guy &#8211; and they&#8217;ve each wronged him in some way &#8211; and he&#8217;s the pilot.  Then comes the best part of the movie: the opening titles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/wildtales2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/wildtales3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Part 2: a diner waitress realizes the sole customer one night is the gangster who drove her father to suicide.  The chef poisons the guy&#8217;s son then stabs the gangster.  Part 3: rich guy vs. normal guy road rage incident goes out of control, ends with explosive deaths.  Fourth: an explosives expert&#8217;s car keeps getting towed, ruining his family life.  Guess what he does?  Next, rich family&#8217;s son drunkenly kills pregnant woman, family pays their gardener to take the blame, bribes are negotiated then gardener is murdered by dead woman&#8217;s husband.  Finally, a bride discovers at wedding that her husband has been cheating, makes a scene.<\/p>\n<p>Editing to music: something more movies should do.  It&#8217;s fun and easy.<\/p>\n<p><em>After portraying the producers as wolves, vultures and lions:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/wildtales4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A massive hit in Argentina.  &#8220;Every story in <em>Wild Tales<\/em> has to do with the clash between the rich and the poor, the powerful and the dispossessed&#8221; &#8211; Quint\u00c3\u00adn writes about how the movie cautiously addresses the problems facing Argentina, convincingly calls it an important film despite its light-violent-entertainment appearance to outsiders like myself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/wildtales1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five stories of People Driven To The Brink: a great opening segment set on a plane, then four mediocre, pointless segments. Kinda fun to watch for a while, but I can&#8217;t believe the acclaim this thing got. Went up against Leviathan, Timbuktu and the winner Ida for the foreign oscar. I guess its defenders hoped [&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":[1049,532,629,464,1889,2043],"class_list":["post-10775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-anthology-film","tag-argentina","tag-corruption","tag-plane-crash","tag-road-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","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=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}