{"id":12366,"date":"2017-12-28T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T04:32:47","slug":"wonderstruck-2017-todd-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12366","title":{"rendered":"Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7076\">Hugo<\/a><\/em> from the same author, which was also a Christmas-release historical city-roaming kids&#8217; adventure by a sometimes-favorite filmmaker.  Ben, a 1970&#8217;s boy suffering recent hearing loss, runs away to New York, meeting a friend named Jamie and hiding out in museums.  This is cut with scenes of 1920&#8217;s Rose (the magnificent Millicent Simmonds) in a similar situation, visiting some of the same spots.  As soon as Ben meets up with grown Rose (Julianne Moore) the fun back-and-forth editing games end, and we&#8217;re caught up on the fifty intervening years through long exposition scenes, a shame.  I also thought <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11985\">Personal Shopper<\/a><\/em> did a better job dramatizing onscreen text (Ben and Grown Rose have to speak via notepad), but overall this was charming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better than Hugo from the same author, which was also a Christmas-release historical city-roaming kids&#8217; adventure by a sometimes-favorite filmmaker. Ben, a 1970&#8217;s boy suffering recent hearing loss, runs away to New York, meeting a friend named Jamie and hiding out in museums. This is cut with scenes of 1920&#8217;s Rose (the magnificent Millicent Simmonds) [&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":[1049,1112,361,2359,267,153],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-julianne-moore","tag-new-york","tag-sign-language","tag-time","tag-todd-haynes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","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=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}