{"id":1591,"date":"2004-02-21T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/mysticriver.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T21:06:39","slug":"avoiding-the-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding the easy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mystic River<\/em> is another movie directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000142\/\" title=\"Internet Movie Database entry for Clint Eastwood\">Clint Eastwood<\/a> which features un-heroic heroes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105695\/\" title=\"Internet Movie Database entry for Unforgiven\">Unforgiven<\/a>, my favorite movie directed by Eastwood is another fine example). These movie are good because they work in a way that is &#8211; sometimes disconcertingly so &#8211; different from other movies. They are more ambiguous in their morals. Usually I can understand why the characters act the way they do, but it is hard to judge for me if what they did is actually right or not. That is why I left the movie theater after watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0327056\/\" title=\"Internet Movie Database entry for Mystic River\">Mystic River<\/a>, and now find myself returning to the movie more often than I do with other movies, even other movies that I found otherwise better &#8211; this is a big compliment, I think, and it is true for all the movies directed by Clint Eastwood that I have seen so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystic River is another movie directed by Clint Eastwood which features un-heroic heroes (Unforgiven, my favorite movie directed by Eastwood is another fine example). These movie are good because they work in a way that is &#8211; sometimes disconcertingly so &#8211; different from other movies. They are more ambiguous in their morals. Usually I can [&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":[182],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-clint-eastwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}