{"id":622,"date":"2003-05-08T21:28:47","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-622.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"the-man-who-wasnt-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/05\/08\/the-man-who-wasnt-there\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Man Who Wasn&#8217;t There<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddball story about a small-town barber whose chance meeting with a travelling salesman kicks off a domino train of events leading to betrayal and murder.  It&#8217;s filmed in loving black-and-white, with a brooding, enigmatic performance by Billy-Bob Thornton as the barber, and the Coen brothers&#8217; characteristic attention to detail.  The pacing is slow, though, and the simple morality tale the plot hangs on isn&#8217;t all that interesting.  Not quite up to the standards of <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/Title?0116282\">Fargo<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/Title?0190590\">O Brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddball story about a small-town barber whose chance meeting with a travelling salesman kicks off a domino train of events leading to betrayal and murder. It&#8217;s filmed in loving black-and-white, with a brooding, enigmatic performance by Billy-Bob Thornton as the barber, and the Coen brothers&#8217; characteristic attention to detail. The pacing is slow, though, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}