{"id":13181,"date":"2019-10-25T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2019-10-25T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T00:12:30","slug":"infinite-football-2018-corneliu-porumboiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13181","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Football (2018, Corneliu Porumboiu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep watching Porumboiu films because of my blind trust in the Cinema Scope critics &#8211; maybe one day his movies will click into place.  At least they are always unusual, and always short, and I am always up for a short, unusual movie, so dude has got my number, even if I haven&#8217;t got his.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/infinite1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The man who was once injured playing football and has since decided that it wasn&#8217;t an issue of personal violence but of the game&#8217;s very structure, and has devoted years to devising alternatives, is a family friend of the director I think, and we&#8217;re not encouraged to write him off as a crank necessarily, but to pay attention to his ideas.  Although it&#8217;s hard when he&#8217;s interviewed during his day job by a woman he completely can&#8217;t help, the movie briefly becoming a parody of failed bureaucracy, then he carries on &#8220;I feel a bit like those heroes.  I&#8217;m here, filing documents, but in my double life I revolutionise sport.&#8221;  He removes the right-angles from the playing field, then devises defense\/offense zones so fewer players can end up in the same spot &#8211; the whole thing seems a bit silly, then gets kinda beautiful with its utopian philosophy at the end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/infinite2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep watching Porumboiu films because of my blind trust in the Cinema Scope critics &#8211; maybe one day his movies will click into place. At least they are always unusual, and always short, and I am always up for a short, unusual movie, so dude has got my number, even if I haven&#8217;t got [&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":[1049,1696,93,322,1276],"class_list":["post-13181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-corneliu-porumboiu","tag-documentary","tag-philosophy","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181","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=13181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13220,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13181\/revisions\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}