{"id":17013,"date":"2024-11-24T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2024-11-22T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:52:52","slug":"alex-wheatle-2020-steve-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17013","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wheatle (2020, Steve McQueen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen months after the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15729\">last episode<\/a> I&#8217;m finally getting around to part four of <em>Small Axe<\/em>.  Alex is in prison re-living his life in flashback, particularly the year he arrived in London, met a bunch of cool people and got really into reggae.  Jerking back and forth in time, I only figured out Alex was a real person towards the end when he got out of jail.  Most critics disliked this episode for its biopic nature or its wonky script, I liked it very much because it&#8217;s an hour long and full of cool music.  Then I listened to disc one of The Trojan Dub Box and now I&#8217;m good for the rest of the year.  Alex (Sheyi Cole) was later in Soderbergh&#8217;s <em>Full Circle<\/em>, which I&#8217;d forgotten all about.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alex&#8217;s cellmate says the name of the next Small Axe movie:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/wheatle1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Alex says the name of McQueen&#8217;s follow-up to Small Axe:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/wheatle2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen months after the last episode I&#8217;m finally getting around to part four of Small Axe. Alex is in prison re-living his life in flashback, particularly the year he arrived in London, met a bunch of cool people and got really into reggae. Jerking back and forth in time, I only figured out Alex was [&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":[2643,158,102,247,286,2794],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-biopic","tag-britain","tag-prison","tag-reggae","tag-steve-mcqueen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013","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=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17035,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions\/17035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}