{"id":25554,"date":"2025-09-26T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25554"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:53:30","slug":"swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/swan-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Either you decide that your wife would want this, which requires secrecy, or you decide that she wouldn&#8217;t and tell her you&#8217;re dying. Either way, you&#8217;re deciding for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swan Song<\/strong>, released in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Cameron is very sick, but doesn&#8217;t want his wife and son to know. He even falls to the floor in the bathroom, but his wife is sleeping. He recalls meeting his wife on a train, when he inadvertently ate from her chocolate bar. He meets with Dr. Scott, to discuss creating a clone who will replace him when he dies. He has doubts, but she&#8217;s very convincing.<\/p>\n<p>This movie may have flown under the radar, but you&#8217;ll want to stop everything and watch it today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful story, told beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Mahershala Ali is astonishing, playing two parts.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, and Glenn Close. Directed by Benjamin Cleary (his first movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Either you decide that your wife would want this, which requires secrecy, or you decide that she wouldn&#8217;t and tell her you&#8217;re dying. Either way, you&#8217;re deciding for her.&#8221; Swan Song, released in 2021 Cameron is very sick, but doesn&#8217;t want his wife and son to know. He even falls to the floor in [&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-25554","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\/25554","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=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25564,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions\/25564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}