{"id":1827,"date":"2007-01-30T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2007-01-30T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:41:00","slug":"video-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/video-short","title":{"rendered":"Video short.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-CUT Text=\"Children of men spoiler\"><br \/>\nRecently, I went to see &#8216;Children of Men&#8217;. I will say first that this is the first time that I can remember that a movie literally put me in shock. While I wasn&#8217;t blown away with the cinematography (others disagree and think it was wonderful), the violence was so.. accurate. I suppose if I&#8217;d been playing Half Life every day like a good little boy it wouldn&#8217;t have affected me so much, but.. I didn&#8217;t even react sexually to the lovely shot of the leading lady&#8217;s breasts because I was still in fight-or-flight terror mode from the love interest of the leading male charicter getting graphicly mutilated.<\/p>\n<p>It was very disturbing, although the basic premise was pretty unbeleivable. (uh, huh, this magic whatever is completely undetectable by modern science, only affects humans but no other mammals &#8211; you know, that DOES kind of sound like the Hand of God. For some value of God that includes EVIL_BASTARD as a attribute.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was thinking, as I watched the movie.. someone should make a movie in which $ENEMY thoroughly blows up the U.S., ending with footage from the recent $STUPIDITY in Iraq followed by, white on black, a feild of text.. &#8216;Let us hope and pray that our enemies don&#8217;t hold us to the Golden Rule.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I can only think, watching the various factions blow each other up in a struggle for dominance, that this movie did, whatever else it did or didn&#8217;t do, do a remarkably accurate job &#8211; I imagine, I&#8217;ve never been there &#8211; of capturing what war must be like. <\/p>\n<p>I Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate that any of my energy might ever be expanded on this enterprise &#8211; and yet, I will probably send the IRS a check in April.<br \/>\n<\/lj-CUT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I went to see &#8216;Children of Men&#8217;. I will say first that this is the first time that I can remember that a movie literally put me in shock. While I wasn&#8217;t blown away with the cinematography (others disagree and think it was wonderful), the violence was so.. accurate. I suppose if I&#8217;d been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}