{"id":376,"date":"2005-12-21T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T23:06:43","slug":"the-squid-and-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2005\/the-squid-and-the-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Squid and the Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/syrwes03.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/syrwes03.html','popup','width=625,height=469,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/syrwes03-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" alt=\"Vision Entertainment Services. \u00a9 1995-2005\" title=\"Vision Entertainment Services. \u00a9 1995-2005\" hspace=\"25\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Tonight I went to go see <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Squid_and_the_Whale\">The Squid and the Whale<\/a><\/i> at the Westcott Cinema, in Syracuse&#8217;s Westcott neighborhood, right around the corner from where I live. While the Westcott Cinema could desperately use some of the renovation the Palace Theatre in Eastwood has gotten, it isn&#8217;t in too bad of a shape. I definetly want to see more movies there in the future, seeing that it&#8217;s right around the corner and it generally plays good movies. A couple of weeks ago it screened <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wal-Mart:_The_High_Cost_of_Low_Price\">Wal-Mart:_The High Cost of Low Price<\/a><\/i>, which I unfortunately missed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/250px-Squid_and_the_whale.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/250px-Squid_and_the_whale.html','popup','width=250,height=372,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/250px-Squid_and_the_whale-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"223\" alt=\"Movie Poster\" title=\"This image is of a movie poster or title card, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of movie posters to illustrate the movie in question or to provide critical analysis of the poster content or artwork on the newkai.com, hosted on servers in the United States by the individual Kai Brinker, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on newkai.com or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.\" hspace=\"25\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Anyway, I liked <i>The Squid and the Whale<\/i>. It had that kind-of &#8220;real feel&#8221; to it, probably aided by the use of 16mm cameras, and the movie is kind of a tragicomedy, a genre I like very much.<br \/>\nThe movie has a ton of anachronisms, some of which I noticed while watching the movie. The film was supposed to be set in 1986. Two of the ones I noticed were the U.S. flag on subway cars (didn&#8217;t appear until after 9\/11), and a Purell hand disinfectant dispenser (didn&#8217;t appear until a few years ago). Unlike some people, anachronisms don&#8217;t usually anger me, with the exception of that really stupid one involving a video camera in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_of_the_Worlds_%282005_film%29\">The War of the Worlds<\/a><\/i>, which I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/2005\/07\/war_of_the_worlds.html\">my hate-rant about that movie<\/a> this past summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I went to go see The Squid and the Whale at the Westcott Cinema, in Syracuse&#8217;s Westcott neighborhood, right around the corner from where I live. While the Westcott Cinema could desperately use some of the renovation the Palace Theatre in Eastwood has gotten, it isn&#8217;t in too bad of a shape. I definetly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}