{"id":77,"date":"2006-07-25T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/77"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:13:09","slug":"la-strada-1954-federico-fellini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/77","title":{"rendered":"La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circus strongman Anthony Quinn pops into poor village, visits poor family, mentions that their oldest girl has died, and skips off with the next-oldest, the simpleminded and very facially-expressive Giulietta Masina.  She eventually learns to be useful in the act, but he never warms up to her, disappearing all night with whores and the like.  Guy robs a convent and kills the clown she likes, then leaves her to die on her own, and carries on for years with his lame chain-busting bit.  Not one of those &#8220;tough guy with the heart of gold&#8221; stories then.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lastrada1.jpg\" alt=\"La Strada 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not as dismal as I&#8217;ve made it sound above, but still pretty dismal.  Very watchably dismal though, whenever Giulietta Masina is onscreen, which is almost always.  Mixes Fellini&#8217;s clown obsession with his bummer realist stuff very successfully.  To think that I was afraid of this movie after seeing <em>La Dolce Vita<\/em>.  Wonder if Katy would&#8217;ve enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/lastrada2.jpg\" alt=\"La Strada 2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circus strongman Anthony Quinn pops into poor village, visits poor family, mentions that their oldest girl has died, and skips off with the next-oldest, the simpleminded and very facially-expressive Giulietta Masina. She eventually learns to be useful in the act, but he never warms up to her, disappearing all night with whores and the like. [&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":[218,13,330],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-circus","tag-criterion","tag-federico-fellini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}