{"id":10483,"date":"2017-03-19T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2017-03-19T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:13:51","slug":"collateral-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/collateral-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Collateral Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Maybe I should play all the parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collateral Beauty<\/strong>, released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Howard&#8217;s six-year-old daughter died, and now he&#8217;s uninterested in life. He plays with dominoes at his marketing company, and he rides his bike against traffic. He writes letters to Love, Time, and Death &#8212; after previously having talked about those concepts at work. His colleagues hire actors to portray Love, Time, and Death in an effort to help him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about dealing with the most horrible thing that could possibly happen. It&#8217;s about how you can learn things from anyone if you listen.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of collateral beauty is that even in the darkest of times you can find beauty if you look for it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful movie, with bunch of brilliant actors.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, and Naomie Harris. Directed by David Frankel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-devil-wears-prada\/\"><strong>The Devil Wears Prada<\/strong><\/a>). The mostly low-key music is by Theodore Shapiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Maybe I should play all the parts.&#8221; Collateral Beauty, released in 2016 Howard&#8217;s six-year-old daughter died, and now he&#8217;s uninterested in life. He plays with dominoes at his marketing company, and he rides his bike against traffic. He writes letters to Love, Time, and Death &#8212; after previously having talked about those concepts at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}