{"id":5201,"date":"2010-10-22T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2010-10-22T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:11:14","slug":"its-kind-of-a-funny-story-2010-ryan-fleck-anna-boden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5201","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Kind of a Funny Story (2010, Ryan Fleck &#038; Anna Boden)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie&#8217;s title brings to mind Zach Galifianakis&#8217;s buddy Patton&#8217;s rant against generic sounding movie titles.  <em>Feelin&#8217; Kinda Sorta<\/em>.  And it&#8217;s kinda sorta an okay movie but it&#8217;s maybe pretty forgettable.  Kinda average-looking Keir Gilchrist with pretty normal parents feels suicidal over his high-pressure school, checks himself into clinic where he meets a suicide girl then immediately betrays her by confessing his long-held crush on his best friend&#8217;s girl, hangs out with fellow patient Zach, inspires his shut-in roommate, bares his teenage soul to the doctor in charge and discovers his creative side.  The indie-quirk (see especially: the hasidic jew whose mind got blown on LSD) doesn&#8217;t overwhelm the movie &#8211; but neither does the comedy, despite the word &#8220;funny&#8221; right there in the title and the reliable presence of Zach G.<\/p>\n<p>Katy and I liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie&#8217;s title brings to mind Zach Galifianakis&#8217;s buddy Patton&#8217;s rant against generic sounding movie titles. Feelin&#8217; Kinda Sorta. And it&#8217;s kinda sorta an okay movie but it&#8217;s maybe pretty forgettable. Kinda average-looking Keir Gilchrist with pretty normal parents feels suicidal over his high-pressure school, checks himself into clinic where he meets a suicide girl [&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":[1049,1024],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-ryan-fleck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","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=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}