{"id":19912,"date":"2022-10-16T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19912"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:54:05","slug":"the-water-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-water-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Water Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You didn&#8217;t happen to bring a can opener or anything, did you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Water Man<\/strong>, released in 2020<\/p>\n<p>Gunner&#8217;s mom has leukemia. He learns about the local myth of the Water Man, who might actually be real. A man tells him the story of how the Water Man drowned but came back to life, and how he can bring animals back to life. Gunner makes a deal with Jo, who&#8217;s seen the Water Man, to go into the forest to find him &#8212; he thinks he can help his mom.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about friendship, and difficult feelings about your family.<\/p>\n<p>The ending didn&#8217;t quite make sense*, but other than that I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Amiah Miller, Lonnie Chavis, Rosario Dawson, and Alfred Molina. Directed by David Oyelowo (his first movie as director). The music is by Peter Baert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Gunner and Jo experienced fantastic things in the forest and then the Water Man turned out not to be real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You didn&#8217;t happen to bring a can opener or anything, did you?&#8221; The Water Man, released in 2020 Gunner&#8217;s mom has leukemia. He learns about the local myth of the Water Man, who might actually be real. A man tells him the story of how the Water Man drowned but came back to life, [&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-19912","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\/19912","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=19912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19931,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19912\/revisions\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}