{"id":3232,"date":"2012-12-18T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:58:35","slug":"this-must-be-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/this-must-be-the-place\/","title":{"rendered":"This Must Be the Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/40\/This_Must_Be_the_Place_film.jpg\" title=\"This Must Be The Place (2012)\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"290\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">market<\/a> caters to all sorts of tastes across various arbitrary boundaries, and impulse (that is, <i>blind<\/i>) purchases can provide the most rewarding of viewing experiences.  (I suspect a large part of any cinematic or television enjoyment I can get nowadays is the tension between anticipation\/expectation and The Unexpected &#8211; I might expand on that once I&#8217;ve found my thesaurus.)<\/p>\n<p>So it was with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/This_Must_Be_the_Place_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">This Must Be The Place<\/a>, a road-trip\/revenge-tale\/coming-of-age film that captivated me for all of its almost two-hour running time.  What distinguishes this film from any other film that tries to deal with even just one of those genres is the Robert Smith-inspired middle-aged rock star protagonist (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sean_Penn\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Penn<\/a>) whose backstory is not what we expect, whose journey is equal parts convention and surreality, and whose characterisation reminds me why I&#8217;ve been a Penn fan since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bad_Boys_(1983_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer plays up the revenge angle but the film is, like other personal favourites, so much more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hd-trailers.net\/embed\/this-must-be-the-place\/1-trailer-480p\/\" width=\"852px\" height=\"500px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market caters to all sorts of tastes across various arbitrary boundaries, and impulse (that is, blind) purchases can provide the most rewarding of viewing experiences. (I suspect a large part of any cinematic or television enjoyment I can get nowadays is the tension between anticipation\/expectation and The Unexpected &#8211; I might expand on that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/this-must-be-the-place\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Must Be the Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[776,777,773,774],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","tag-bad-boys","tag-robert-smith","tag-sean-penn","tag-this-must-be-the-place"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}