{"id":1553,"date":"2004-05-10T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/veronica_guerin.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:59:42","slug":"no-glitter-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"No glitter necessary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I saw <em>Veronica Guerin<\/em>. I admit that the picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000949\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for the admirable Mrs. Blanchett\">Cate Blanchett<\/a> on the movie&#8217;s poster was the main reason why I wanted to see this movie, besides it obviously being a politically correct &#8220;true story&#8221;. The story is indeed politically correct, the fate of Veronica Guerin a moving, but not revolutionary one. Guerin obviously was a very courageous woman, and Cate Blanchett plays her role in a most excellent manner. Other than that the movie is very solidly made, and seems to have been carefully researched, &#8211; however, from a cinematographic perspective is has nothing inspiring to offer. Which may be a good thing for this kind of documentary&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0312549\/\">IMDb entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/touchstone\/veronica_guerin\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I saw Veronica Guerin. I admit that the picture of Cate Blanchett on the movie&#8217;s poster was the main reason why I wanted to see this movie, besides it obviously being a politically correct &#8220;true story&#8221;. The story is indeed politically correct, the fate of Veronica Guerin a moving, but not revolutionary one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-cate-blanchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}