{"id":3793,"date":"2009-12-29T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2009-12-29T01:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:07:18","slug":"sugar-2008-ryan-fleck-anna-boden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3793","title":{"rendered":"Sugar (2008, Ryan Fleck &#038; Anna Boden)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t say I watched this at all, since I was focusing more on cutting out CD tracklists than on the screen, but I looked up often enough for this to remind me of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/791\">Chop Shop<\/a><\/em>.  Seemed like one of the modern indie movies that are trying to outdo each other with their raw realism, with traces of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1748\">The Wrestler<\/a><\/em> follow-cam.  I&#8217;m not so into the gritty Dardenne school, but this didn&#8217;t overdo it.  Sugar dreams baseball, makes furniture, gets into the U.S. major-league farm teams, is the next big thing, then thinks he&#8217;s losing his edge so runs off to NYC to work on furniture, play small-time ball in his spare time.<\/p>\n<p>Regular collaborators Fleck and Boden are both credited as director, but Fleck took sole director credit on breakthrough <em>Half Nelson<\/em> so Boden doesn&#8217;t get as much mention in the reviews.  I don&#8217;t know who either one of &#8217;em is, so it&#8217;s all the same to me.<\/p>\n<p>Cinema Scope liked it, said they &#8220;pared down the dialogue, kept the plot off to the side, and invested everything in looks, gestures, space, and atmosphere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t say I watched this at all, since I was focusing more on cutting out CD tracklists than on the screen, but I looked up often enough for this to remind me of Chop Shop. Seemed like one of the modern indie movies that are trying to outdo each other with their raw [&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":[369,764,361,1024],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-ryan-fleck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}