{"id":2692,"date":"2010-01-04T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2010-01-04T08:58:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:58:34","slug":"repostcomparing-the-1990s-and-the-2000s-what-our-movies-say-about-us-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/repostcomparing-the-1990s-and-the-2000s-what-our-movies-say-about-us-film\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Comparing the 1990s and the 2000s: What Our Movies Say About Us &#124; \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was thinking of my &#8211; what was my favorite <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Film\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Film\">movie<\/a> of the decade? It was \u201c<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)\" rel=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eternal-Sunshine-Spotless-Mind-Widescreen\/dp\/B00005JMJG%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00005JMJG\">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/a>,\u201d written by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Charlie Kaufman\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0442109\/\">Charlie Kaufman<\/a> and directed by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Michel Gondry\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0327273\/\">Michel Gondry<\/a>. And I was trying to think what that film thematically says about the\u2026aughts, and I think that the idea of the tension between reality and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fantasy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasy\">fantasy<\/a> has gotten more pronounced in the last decade, and the ways in which &#8211; the movie is sort of like a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Philip K. Dick\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001140\/\">Philip K. Dick<\/a> paranoid fever-dream wedded to a screwball romance. And there\u2019s no way it could happened, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Technology\" rel=\"wikinvest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/industry\/Technology\">technology<\/a> wouldn\u2019t have allowed it, and the sensibility wouldn\u2019t have allowed it in any other decade.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2010\/01\/02\/comparing-the-1990s-and-the-2000s-what-our-movies-say-about-us\/\">Comparing the 1990s and the 2000s: What Our Movies Say About Us | \/Film<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>read the whole thing its a time sink with links to such excellent lists and articles!!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d9303cdc-4a7a-4259-b574-4a9f9576b4b8\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of my &#8211; what was my favorite movie of the decade? It was \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\u201d written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. And I was trying to think what that film thematically says about the\u2026aughts, and I think that the idea of the tension between reality &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/repostcomparing-the-1990s-and-the-2000s-what-our-movies-say-about-us-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Comparing the 1990s and the 2000s: What Our Movies Say About Us &#124; \/Film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,33,57,62],"tags":[185,317,519,557,941,971,1095,1329],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-video","category-film","category-movies","category-personal-angol","tag-arts","tag-charlie-kaufman","tag-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind","tag-film","tag-michel-gondry","tag-movies","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-spotless-mind"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}