{"id":16370,"date":"2024-04-14T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16370"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:49:23","slug":"gerry-2002-gus-van-sant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16370","title":{"rendered":"Gerry (2002, Gus Van Sant)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <em>Paris Texas<\/em> I was in the mood to watch more people wandering the desert.  I&#8217;d long assumed this would be a slow-cinema endurance test, but it&#8217;s absurd and wonderful.  When lost idiots Matt Damon and Casey Affleck ever speak, it&#8217;s in-joke code.  The movie mocks them, changing terrain and teleporting them from California to deserts in Utah and Argentina, and they make a mockery of their terrain, stranding Affleck on a way-too-tall rock, which he gerries down unharmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/gerry1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Apparently a Bela Tarr homage.  <em>Gerry<\/em>-liker Mike D&#8217;Angelo only complains about &#8220;an abrupt ending that serves up an unwelcome dose of cheap irony,&#8221; while the only nice thing Tarr-o-phile Rosenbaum could say is that it&#8217;s less phony than <em>Finding Forrester<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/gerry2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Paris Texas I was in the mood to watch more people wandering the desert. I&#8217;d long assumed this would be a slow-cinema endurance test, but it&#8217;s absurd and wonderful. When lost idiots Matt Damon and Casey Affleck ever speak, it&#8217;s in-joke code. The movie mocks them, changing terrain and teleporting them from California to [&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":[369,2206,3241,22,1107],"class_list":["post-16370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-casey-affleck","tag-desert","tag-gus-van-sant","tag-matt-damon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370","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=16370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16389,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16370\/revisions\/16389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}