{"id":15571,"date":"2023-03-14T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15571"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:18:48","slug":"monos-2019-alejandro-landes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15571","title":{"rendered":"Monos (2019, Alejandro Landes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The monos are a bunch of commando kids entrusted by a larger organization with the care of kidnapped English native speaker &#8220;La Doctora&#8221; (Julianne Nicholson of <em>Blonde<\/em>).  The monos are armed, with military training, but they&#8217;re also horny fuckup kids, who immediately\/accidentally kill the cow they&#8217;ve borrowed from the townsfolk, and repeatedly let the Doctora escape.  She kills one of them, one suicides, one manages to escape.  Movie opens promisingly with a blindfolded soccer game and some <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8234\">Beau Travail<\/a><\/em> moves, and stays watchable throughout, even if it never really goes anywhere.  The music is nuts, in a good way, from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9136\">Under the Skin<\/a><\/em> composer Mica Levi.  A Sundance premiere, which makes sense, since it reminded me (but in a kinda good way?) of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14085\">Mayday<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/monos1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/monos3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monos are a bunch of commando kids entrusted by a larger organization with the care of kidnapped English native speaker &#8220;La Doctora&#8221; (Julianne Nicholson of Blonde). The monos are armed, with military training, but they&#8217;re also horny fuckup kids, who immediately\/accidentally kill the cow they&#8217;ve borrowed from the townsfolk, and repeatedly let the Doctora [&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":[1049,3094,2840,1195],"class_list":["post-15571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alejandro-landes","tag-cow","tag-kidnapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","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=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15583,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions\/15583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}