{"id":4465,"date":"2011-09-05T23:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T06:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2011-09-05T23:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T06:53:05","slug":"bellflower-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/bellflower-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellflower: Wow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellflower-themovie.com\/\">Bellflower<\/a> tonight with Laurie at The Roxie. Three times, it was not what I expected.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bellflower1\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Bellflower1.jpg 1866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>quotes<\/strong> I read in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellflower-themovie.com\/trailer\/\">the trailer<\/a> are <strong>100%<\/strong> <em>true<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I laughed, I <strong>gasped<\/strong>. I felth touched by the warmth. I <em>marveled <\/em>at how real it all seemed and I haven&#8217;t been able to <strong>stop thinking<\/strong> about it&#8221; &#8211; Film.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Hallucinatory<\/em><\/strong>. Bellflower practically <strong>jumps off<\/strong> the screen.&#8221; &#8211; Rolling Stone<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A weird mix of <em>John <\/em><strong>Hughes <\/strong>and <strong>Mad <\/strong><em>Max<\/em>. One of the most trong and stylish critiques of the idiocy and confusion in young manhood since <strong>Fight Club<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; MSN<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bellflower is an <em>explosive<\/em>, <strong>outrageous<\/strong>, and <em>dynamic <\/em>first film that lives way outside the margins of what we call indie film today&#8221; &#8211; Hammer to Nail<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is fucking <strong>intense<\/strong>. (director) Glodell <strong>threw me<\/strong> under the tires and I came out with <em>grit <\/em>and true <strong>catharsis<\/strong>.&#8221; &#8211; Me<\/p>\n<p><strong>See this film<\/strong>. I could try to warn you that it isn&#8217;t what you expect, but it wouldn&#8217;t do any good. Your mouth will still lie agape as mine was.<\/p>\n<p>I have literally have worn that beard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Bellflower tonight with Laurie at The Roxie. Three times, it was not what I expected. The quotes I read in the trailer are 100% true: &#8220;I laughed, I gasped. I felth touched by the warmth. I marveled at how real it all seemed and I haven&#8217;t been able to stop thinking about it&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playing-reading-watching-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}