{"id":17710,"date":"2025-08-09T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17710"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:32:23","slug":"poison-1991-todd-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17710","title":{"rendered":"Poison (1991, Todd Haynes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven year-old Richie Beacon shot his dad then flew off the balcony, filmed in color news-reportage style, the picture stretched out horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Olson interrupts Dr. Graves, who then ingests pure, distilled sex-drive potion and becomes the leper sex killer, in 1950s b\/w.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/poison1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>A thief goes to jail for the umpteenth time, meets old acquaintance Bolton.  &#8220;I still could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/poison2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/notjro\/film\/poison\/\">Rosenbaum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most exciting moments in <em>Poison<\/em> are those that create a momentary confusion about which of Haynes\u2019s three stories one happens to be watching \u2014 moments of vertigo during which two or more of the three stories seem to fuse (or, perhaps more to the point, \u201cbleed\u201d together).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/poison3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven year-old Richie Beacon shot his dad then flew off the balcony, filmed in color news-reportage style, the picture stretched out horizontally. Nancy Olson interrupts Dr. Graves, who then ingests pure, distilled sex-drive potion and becomes the leper sex killer, in 1950s b\/w. A thief goes to jail for the umpteenth time, meets old acquaintance [&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":[451,3404,1422,260,247,153],"class_list":["post-17710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-jean-genet","tag-mad-scientist","tag-multi-part","tag-prison","tag-todd-haynes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710","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=17710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17757,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17710\/revisions\/17757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}