{"id":278,"date":"2007-05-27T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/278"},"modified":"2010-11-26T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:46:45","slug":"killer-of-sheep-1977-charles-burnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/278","title":{"rendered":"Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wowwww, wonderful movie, lives up to its reputation after I&#8217;d had lowered expectations from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/279\">Several Friends<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/275\">My Brother&#8217;s Wedding<\/a><\/em>.  This little masterpiece falls right between those two somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Simply but artistically shot, just follows a guy who works part-time at a slaughterhouse and wants to fix his car and live comfortably with his wife.  Things don&#8217;t work out that well.  Movie not centered on him really, follows some neighbor kids, some friends of his and others nearby.  A mostly realistic little neighborhood drama.  Don&#8217;t know what to say, don&#8217;t know what made it so affecting, but that&#8217;s why I ain&#8217;t no film critic here.<\/p>\n<p>The part where the car engine falls off the back of our hero&#8217;s truck had more suspense-and-release than anything in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/280\">Spider-man 3<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wowwww, wonderful movie, lives up to its reputation after I&#8217;d had lowered expectations from Several Friends and My Brother&#8217;s Wedding. This little masterpiece falls right between those two somehow. Simply but artistically shot, just follows a guy who works part-time at a slaughterhouse and wants to fix his car and live comfortably with his wife. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,70,68],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-16","tag-atlanta-film-festival","tag-charles-burnett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}