{"id":43,"date":"2006-06-10T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/43"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:45:26","slug":"laura-smiles-2005-jason-ruscio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/43","title":{"rendered":"Laura Smiles (2005, Jason Ruscio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to mind last year&#8217;s <em>Somersault<\/em> and <em>Lila Says<\/em> and <em>Keene<\/em>.  Not likeable at all, but not worth hating.<\/p>\n<p>Laura lived in the city, loved Chris, who got killed.  So she married (Mark?), had a kid, moved suburb.  Sleeps with strangers compulsively and might have killed her neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Ugly, shot on DV + transferred to film I think.  Tops of all heads cut off &#8211; can&#8217;t tell if mis-framed or mis-projected but neither would be surprising.  The lighting is either bad on purpose or just bad.  Lots of close-ups on Laura looked great &#8211; everything else fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>So why was this so crappy?  The repeated scenes and not-at-all-fluidly jumping back and forth in time?  The pathetic pointlessness of the dialogue?  The boring portrayal of a woman who lost her dream man, dream career and dream life, ending up the one thing she didn&#8217;t want to be, a suburban housewife?  Not even that bad a story or character &#8211; just never comes together into anything exciting!  No excitement!  No reason to watch it!  Especially coming off <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/42\">X-Men 3<\/a><\/em>, a movie with too many reasons to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, an IMDB reviewer says &#8220;writer\/director Jason Ruscio said in Q &#038; A &#8230; that he was inspired by the break-up of his relationship with the lead actress.&#8221;  So another movie-as-therapy.  <em>The Squid and the Housewife<\/em>, or something.  How come <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/40\">Clean<\/a><\/em> was so good, then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to mind last year&#8217;s Somersault and Lila Says and Keene. Not likeable at all, but not worth hating. Laura lived in the city, loved Chris, who got killed. So she married (Mark?), had a kid, moved suburb. Sleeps with strangers compulsively and might have killed her neighbor. Ugly, shot on DV + transferred to [&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":[369,70],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-atlanta-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}