{"id":14124,"date":"2021-04-02T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T00:36:39","slug":"synchronic-2019-justin-benson-aaron-moorhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14124","title":{"rendered":"Synchronic (2019, Justin Benson &#038; Aaron Moorhead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Mackie (currently having a superhero moment on TV) and his partner Jamie Dornan (<em>Barb &#038; Star<\/em>) are New Orleans paramedics investigating a bad drug scene in a crazy long take.  Mackie has an unusual brain tumor, dreams of flooding coffins, and as they discover a wave of deaths from the titular drug which lets you &#8220;experience time as it actually is&#8221; (?), Dornan&#8217;s teen daughter takes it and vanishes.  Since Mackie is dying anyway and has a suspiciously coincidental pineal gland abnormality, he sets off trying to rescue his friend&#8217;s daughter from a series of pasts.  &#8220;The past fucking sucks,&#8221; he accurately reports after every few-minutes-long jump back attempts to kill him.  He even World-of-Tomorrows to the ancient tundra, very exciting.  Things work out for the girl, if not for Mackie.  More conventional than Benson &#038; Moorhead&#8217;s other features, but as long as they keep making time-loop thrillers, I will keep watching them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our dudes go to the fair:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/synchronic.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Mackie (currently having a superhero moment on TV) and his partner Jamie Dornan (Barb &#038; Star) are New Orleans paramedics investigating a bad drug scene in a crazy long take. Mackie has an unusual brain tumor, dreams of flooding coffins, and as they discover a wave of deaths from the titular drug which lets [&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":[1049,2367,136,111],"class_list":["post-14124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-benson-moorhead","tag-drugs","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14163,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}