{"id":10654,"date":"2017-04-24T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:39:35","slug":"broken-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/broken-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m like your mistress, except you&#8217;re not even married.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Broken Flowers<\/strong>, released in 2005<\/p>\n<p>Don receives a letter claiming that he fathered a son 20 years ago. The letter is unsigned. His friend Winston encourages him to take a road trip and visit each of the women he was with around that time. Against his instinct, he goes on the trip &#8212; each of the women respond to his visit differently.<\/p>\n<p>This movie isn&#8217;t laugh-out-loud funny, but many moments are subtly humorous. Bill Murray does a splendid job as Don.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about big questions like what to do with your life and whether it needs changing.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, and Tilda Swinton. Directed by Jim Jarmusch (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/only-lovers-left-alive\/\"><strong>Only Lovers Left Alive<\/strong><\/a>). The jazzy music by Mulatu Astatke is terrific.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I&#8217;m like your mistress, except you&#8217;re not even married.&#8221; Broken Flowers, released in 2005 Don receives a letter claiming that he fathered a son 20 years ago. The letter is unsigned. His friend Winston encourages him to take a road trip and visit each of the women he was with around that time. Against [&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-10654","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\/10654","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=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10658,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}