{"id":14131,"date":"2021-04-04T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14131"},"modified":"2021-04-04T12:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:06:31","slug":"the-day-shall-come-2019-christopher-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14131","title":{"rendered":"The Day Shall Come (2019, Christopher Morris)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lenny&#8217;s a racist, but he&#8217;s one of the good ones.&#8221;  Filipe&#8217;s short <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/filipe_furtado\/film\/the-day-shall-come\/\">letterboxd review<\/a> kept coming to mind, &#8220;the overall absurdism does have its moments and Morris&#8217;s anger comes through,&#8221; especially when the movie ends with cops and feds getting cheerfully promoted for destroying the lives of cool weirdos.  Lead weirdo is Moses, who runs a black militant duck farm.  Agent Anna Kendrick is looking for people to set up to take credit for saving the world from terrorism I guess.  The feds determine Moses&#8217;s crew is no threat, but after Moses sells fake uranium to nazi cop Jim Gaffigan (!), the higher-ups get involved and everybody below goes to jail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moses presides:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dayshall1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Danielle Brooks (Clemency the same year) gives Santa a touch-up:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dayshall2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Afrika nails informant Kayvan Novak (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9822\">Four Lions<\/a>):<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dayshall3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lenny&#8217;s a racist, but he&#8217;s one of the good ones.&#8221; Filipe&#8217;s short letterboxd review kept coming to mind, &#8220;the overall absurdism does have its moments and Morris&#8217;s anger comes through,&#8221; especially when the movie ends with cops and feds getting cheerfully promoted for destroying the lives of cool weirdos. Lead weirdo is Moses, who runs [&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":[1049,1790,1310,248,499,926],"class_list":["post-14131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christopher-morris","tag-espionage","tag-nazis","tag-police-brutality","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131","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=14131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14168,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}