{"id":14123,"date":"2021-04-02T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14123"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T00:34:17","slug":"bird-island-2019-sergio-da-costa-maya-kosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14123","title":{"rendered":"Bird Island (2019, Sergio Da Costa &#038; Maya Kosa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch of a movie following a narcoleptic young man as he takes over for the retiring rat breeder at a bird sanctuary.  Flute music over the rat intro gives unavoidable <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11916\">Rat Film<\/a><\/em> flashbacks.  Ordinarily I&#8217;d be all over a bird movie, but I&#8217;m torn on this one.  Cutting a rat to bits with scissors isn&#8217;t great, but feeding it to an injured owl moments later compensates.  Pulling shards from a swan&#8217;s wound isn&#8217;t great, even though the bird is being helped (Katy ditched at this point).  Finally some escaped rats have their revenge on the injured birds (offscreen) and a little birdy has to be euthanized (onscreen).  Next time let&#8217;s have more birds, less death, no humans.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/birdisland1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/birdisland2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch of a movie following a narcoleptic young man as he takes over for the retiring rat breeder at a bird sanctuary. Flute music over the rat intro gives unavoidable Rat Film flashbacks. Ordinarily I&#8217;d be all over a bird movie, but I&#8217;m torn on this one. Cutting a rat to bits with scissors isn&#8217;t [&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":[1049,239,418,93,979],"class_list":["post-14123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-birds","tag-death","tag-documentary","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123","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=14123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14123\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}