{"id":1734,"date":"2005-10-09T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1734.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","slug":"veronica-guerin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/10\/09\/veronica-guerin\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Veronica Guerin<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best way I can sum up this film is in cinematographical terms:  it feels like a wide shot, when it should have been in close-up.  The story of Veronica Guerin, an Irish crime reporter who was shot to death by the drugs dealers she exposed, is a powerful one.  But despite it being a serious film, it didn&#8217;t feel serious or weighty <em>enough<\/em>.  It&#8217;s a big studio production (Jerry Bruckheimer\/Joel Schumacher), with all of the baggage that entails:  a certain familiarity of <i lang=\"fr\">mise-en-scene<\/i>, a certain blandness of dialogue, a certain melodrama to the inevitable ending.  <em>Meh<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way I can sum up this film is in cinematographical terms: it feels like a wide shot, when it should have been in close-up. The story of Veronica Guerin, an Irish crime reporter who was shot to death by the drugs dealers she exposed, is a powerful one. But despite it being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_25_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}