{"id":243,"date":"2018-08-28T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2019-01-08T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:26:23","slug":"film-review-blackkklansman-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: -20px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjUyOTE1NjI0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM4ODQ5NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to love this film. The trailers looked really interesting, and the subject matter fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>The messages in this film, the\u00a0<em>truths<\/em> in this film, are unavoidable and unquestionable. The parallels with the USA and the wider world are there to see.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a <em>good movie<\/em> though? Does it stand up on its own, messages to one side, as a good or great example of the cinematic art?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>It feels long, a bit flabby in places. I couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that I was seeing the same joke \/ message \/ vehicle over and over again. Where I wanted depth and exposition I got repetition and flab.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I\u2019m glad I watched it, but it\u2019s not a <em>great movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I give this film 7.0\/10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to love this film. The trailers looked really interesting, and the subject matter fascinating. The messages in this film, the\u00a0truths in this film, are unavoidable and unquestionable. The parallels with the USA and the wider world are there to see. Is it a good movie though? Does it stand up on its own, messages to one side, as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}