{"id":3606,"date":"2021-02-01T04:37:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2021-02-01T04:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T20:37:42","slug":"why-ammonite-is-one-of-the-best-films-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2021\/02\/why-ammonite-is-one-of-the-best-films-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ammonite Is One Of The Best Films Of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_53807\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GqNUuBslZK0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>Have you watched Ammonite yet? I&#8217;ve dubbed it Nat Geo Porn in my review on Letterboxd, and I think that&#8217;s an apt description. But I did really genuinely enjoy it, despite the rather melancholy tone. The leads were fantastic, and it did a great job of examining how difficult finding meaningful relationships can be, especially for people facing challenging conditions to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch the above video for my full review, but I do want to point out that I think one of the most common criticisms of the movie I&#8217;ve seen strikes me as unfair. Complaining that their is no chemistry between the lead characters seems to miss the point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are not meant to be likeable characters. They&#8217;ve been hardened by their life experiences and suppressed because of their gender. This isn&#8217;t some Hollywood glamorization, but an attempt to depict real people in bleak circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you watched Ammonite yet? I&#8217;ve dubbed it Nat Geo Porn in my review on Letterboxd, and I think that&#8217;s an apt description. But I did really genuinely enjoy it, despite the rather melancholy tone. The leads were fantastic, and it did a great job of examining how difficult finding meaningful relationships can be, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3177,3180,3179,53,2887,3178],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-ammonite","tag-francis-lee","tag-kate-winslet","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-saiorse-ronan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}