{"id":1893,"date":"2006-06-19T21:23:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1893.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","slug":"ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2006\/06\/19\/ray\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ray<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well shot, well acted, but as a <em>film<\/em> it felt kinda perfunctory.  A bunch of scenes, thrown together, to chart the rise and fall and rise of Ray Charles. A man&#8217;s life doesn&#8217;t necessarily follow the same kind of structure as a drama, but by being made into a movie, it <em>presents<\/em> itself as one.  And as a drama, I found it too fragmented and arbitrary to be anything more than &#8220;merely&#8221; good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well shot, well acted, but as a film it felt kinda perfunctory. A bunch of scenes, thrown together, to chart the rise and fall and rise of Ray Charles. A man&#8217;s life doesn&#8217;t necessarily follow the same kind of structure as a drama, but by being made into a movie, it presents itself as one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}