{"id":14874,"date":"2022-03-15T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14874"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:58:58","slug":"slow-machine-2020-joe-denardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14874","title":{"rendered":"Slow Machine (2020, Joe Denardo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A storytelling movie, with lots of warnings and reassurances &#8211; I was drawn to it by Vikram&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/slow-machine-is-a-paranoid-thriller-with-a-distinct-lo-1847010578\">AV Club<\/a> mention of Rivette.  I didn&#8217;t follow the timeline structure and just took each scene on its own, so I&#8217;m missing the overall purpose, but it&#8217;s all fine.  A better Rotterdance pick than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14873\">Nowhere Inn<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/slowmachine.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie is as close as we get to a lead character &#8211; a blonde Swedish actress doing a Texas accent for a role.  Due to a roommate situation, she hangs out at Eleanor Friedberger&#8217;s practice space.  She keeps running into Gerard, who claims to be a gov&#8217;t counterterrorist hit man.  Redhaired Scott Shepherd should be good at this from his <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12528\">Wormwood<\/a><\/em> experience, but it&#8217;s hard to realistically deliver dialogue this confidently paranoid.  Stephanie is also friends with Chloe Sevigny for some reason.  Scary stories are told, Gerard either dies or disappears, and it&#8217;s all very film grainy, with some light flares at the end of scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A storytelling movie, with lots of warnings and reassurances &#8211; I was drawn to it by Vikram&#8217;s AV Club mention of Rivette. I didn&#8217;t follow the timeline structure and just took each scene on its own, so I&#8217;m missing the overall purpose, but it&#8217;s all fine. A better Rotterdance pick than Nowhere Inn. Stephanie is [&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":[2643,2098,2984,611],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-chloe-sevigny","tag-joe-denardo","tag-paranoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","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=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}