{"id":15443,"date":"2023-01-17T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2023-01-16T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T21:42:47","slug":"something-in-the-dirt-2022-benson-moorhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15443","title":{"rendered":"Something in the Dirt (2022, Benson &#038; Moorhead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding photographer John and bartender Levi discover supernatural phenomenon in Levi&#8217;s apartment and shoot a documentary about it.  Maybe his closet is a gateway to another dimension.  Finding symbols and coincidences in Los Angeles, like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13137\">Silver Lake<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13627\">Lodge 49<\/a><\/em>, but this time it&#8217;s not just one conspiracy\/coincidence, it&#8217;s ALL of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did you play yourselves in the recreations?&#8221;  Feels pandemicky, the writers\/directors playing the lead roles, set in an apartment.  As they start to mistrust each other, doc interviewees cast doubts on the histories and findings, and the movie we&#8217;re watching itself, speaking of visual effects tests to create the floating crystals and stuff.  But it ends &#8211; in typical Benson\/Moorhead fashion &#8211; with a possible callback to a previous film (someone falling inexplicably <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14124\">from a great height<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dirt1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dirt2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/dirt3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding photographer John and bartender Levi discover supernatural phenomenon in Levi&#8217;s apartment and shoot a documentary about it. Maybe his closet is a gateway to another dimension. Finding symbols and coincidences in Los Angeles, like Silver Lake or Lodge 49, but this time it&#8217;s not just one conspiracy\/coincidence, it&#8217;s ALL of them. &#8220;Why did you [&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":[2643,2367,354,750,1514],"class_list":["post-15443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-benson-moorhead","tag-conspiracy","tag-fake-documentary","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","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=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}