{"id":22576,"date":"2012-06-14T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2012\/06\/ill-manors-2012\/22576"},"modified":"2012-06-14T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:57:04","slug":"ill-manors-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2012\/06\/22576\/ill-manors-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"iLL Manors (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two words: unremittingly grim. Wow. In hindsight, it probably wasn&#8217;t the greatest of ideas to go to see Ill Manors AND <a title=\"Red Tails (2012)\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.herdivineshadow.com\/2012\/06\/red-tails-2012\/\">Red Tails<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on the same day. It was pretty heavy-going.<\/p>\n<p>The music plays a huge part of many films, and I don&#8217;t think more so than in this film &#8211; the words of Plan B (and John Cooper Clarke, who was an unexpected bonus when he appeared) tell a lot of the story that isn&#8217;t necessarily laid out explicitly on-screen. Incredibly effectively too. The lyrics provided an extra narrative that wasn&#8217;t intrusive and fit well with the feel of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the use of mobile phone-style camera footage at times and old home video style footage at others. Both very of the time of the subject being filmed.<\/p>\n<p>No one really comes out as completely flawed or completely flawless, but that&#8217;s how life is, isn&#8217;t it? Many will call this film &#8220;harrowing&#8221;, but some shade of it will probably exist in the streets near you.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.herdivineshadow.com\/2012\/06\/ill-manors-2012\/\">half girl, half robot<\/a>. You can comment here or <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.herdivineshadow.com\/2012\/06\/ill-manors-2012\/#comments\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herdivineshadow.livejournal.com\/1072910.html\">Link to the original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two words: unremittingly grim. Wow. In hindsight, it probably wasn&#8217;t the greatest of ideas to go to see Ill Manors AND Red Tails\u00c2\u00a0on the same day. It was pretty heavy-going. The music plays a huge part of many films, and I don&#8217;t think more so than in this film &#8211; the words of Plan B &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/2012\/06\/22576\/ill-manors-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iLL Manors (2012)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reblogged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herdivineshadow.com\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}