{"id":1204,"date":"2006-07-13T22:30:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2006-07-13T23:23:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T22:23:27","slug":"review-hard-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hard Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far the best psychological thriller this year. Not only is the story surprisingly good and subtle, it&#8217;s also able to grip you from the very start till the very end. Basically a masterful duel of words, Patrick Wilson had already proven himself years ago with the Angels in America miniseries (while still keeping a low profile ever since), it&#8217;s Ellen Page who will take most of the credits with her breakthrough performance (even though her resume is longer than Wilson&#8217;s, plus she&#8217;s in a Hollywood blockbuster, X-Men The Last Stand).<br \/>\nDirection seems to lean a bit too much towards close-ups, but later on you&#8217;ll feel the effect of it. With other simple but effective tricks to segue from scene to scene, former music video director David Slade proves to be insightful for a beginner.<br \/>\nIf you ever wonder if only two people at one location can keep your full attention for over a hundred minutes, this movie is definitely what you should try.7\u00c2\u00bd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the best psychological thriller this year. Not only is the story surprisingly good and subtle, it&#8217;s also able to grip you from the very start till the very end. Basically a masterful duel of words, Patrick Wilson had already proven himself years ago with the Angels in America miniseries (while still keeping a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}