{"id":15241,"date":"2022-09-30T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:32:22","slug":"landscape-suicide-1986-james-benning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15241","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Suicide (1986, James Benning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in structural a-g territory here, a tennis player woking on his serve, over and over with precise editing.  But then it&#8217;s twin true-crime re-enactments, actors playing murderers in interrogation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/landscape1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A California teen girl is stabbed to death in 1984.  The sound of typing throughout, cuts to black between her responses, ties to the novel <em>Devil House<\/em>, landscapes and artifacts.  We have to listen to an entire song from <em>Cats<\/em> while watching a girl with perfect 80s hair talk on the phone.  I don&#8217;t wanna have to think about the cost of music royalties when watching a movie, but putting a song from <em>Thriller<\/em> in your experimental documentary is okay?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/landscape2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Another girl is found dead at a Wisconsin farm in 1957.  Static composition takes from around town, same as we just did in other town, listening to a radio preacher.  Woman dancing alone to the worst version I&#8217;ve ever heard of &#8220;Tennessee Waltz.&#8221;  This time no typing on the interview scenes, some ambient industrial sound.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/landscape3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s some pretty cool work by Benning, but I feel like I was tricked into watching a serial-killer movie, and I should&#8217;ve put on that four-hour George Harrison documentary instead.  As far as my relative interest in musicians\/murders go, I&#8217;ve skimmed the wiki on Ed Gein and though &#8220;oh no, that  pretty much sucks&#8221; then moved on and never thought about him again.  But I&#8217;ve considered George Harrison every day this year, and maybe that&#8217;s because I think I could pretty easily be a serial killer, but could never play guitar in a good group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in structural a-g territory here, a tennis player woking on his serve, over and over with precise editing. But then it&#8217;s twin true-crime re-enactments, actors playing murderers in interrogation. A California teen girl is stabbed to death in 1984. The sound of typing throughout, cuts to black between her responses, ties to the novel [&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":[357,750,1860,1319,2922],"class_list":["post-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-fake-documentary","tag-james-benning","tag-serial-killer","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","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=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15273,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions\/15273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}