{"id":19588,"date":"2022-09-04T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T01:36:15","slug":"chaos-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chaos-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;&#8216;You didn&#8217;t just think there were two settlements in all of New World, did you?&#8217; &#8216;No, of course not. Thought it was one.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chaos Walking<\/strong>, released in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Todd lives on New World, where all the men think their thoughts out loud &#8212; the call it &#8220;the noise.&#8221; Some of them can control it more than others. When a scout ship crashes, he finds the only survivor, Viola. The first woman he&#8217;s seen in many years &#8212; the woman of his village were all killed by the Spackle, creatures indigenous to the world. The mayor wants to take over Viola&#8217;s spaceship, so Todd&#8217;s dad sends him away to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>It might not quite be a great movie, but it&#8217;s an interesting premise with a couple of terrific actors.<\/p>\n<p>I like how Todd calls her &#8220;space girl&#8221; until he learns her name.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 2 people who have led very different lives getting to know each other, and the planet they&#8217;re on.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest question I&#8217;m left with is how Prentiss was able to control the men with his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, and Mads Mikkelsen. Directed by Doug Liman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/edge-of-tomorrow-2\/\"><strong>Edge of Tomorrow<\/strong><\/a>). The music is by Marco Beltrami and Brandon Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;&#8216;You didn&#8217;t just think there were two settlements in all of New World, did you?&#8217; &#8216;No, of course not. Thought it was one.&#8217;&#8221; Chaos Walking, released in 2021 Todd lives on New World, where all the men think their thoughts out loud &#8212; the call it &#8220;the noise.&#8221; Some of them can control it [&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":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","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=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19612,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions\/19612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}