{"id":6540,"date":"2015-07-02T22:24:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:53:26","slug":"the-young-and-prodigious-t-s-spivet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/the-young-and-prodigious-t-s-spivet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;How could humans create so many right angles, when their behaviour was so convoluted and illogical?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet<\/strong>, released in 2013<\/p>\n<p>T.S. Spivet is only a young boy but his design for a perpetual motion machine has won a contest at the Smithsonian. His father is a cowboy, his mother studies insects, his sister wants to get off the farm, and his brother was killed in a gun accident. T.S. decides to leave &#8212; he hops a freight train and heads to Washington DC, intending to do scientific work for the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is very funny, although it has serious moments. T.S. sometimes talks to people who aren&#8217;t really there. The part in the middle where T.S. is on the train is slightly less interesting than the rest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a unique story, and deserves to be watched by everyone who enjoyed <strong>Amelie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Helena Bonham Carter and Callum Keith Rennie. Dominique Pinon and Rick Mercer have small parts. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/amelie\/\"><strong>Amelie<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;How could humans create so many right angles, when their behaviour was so convoluted and illogical?&#8221; The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, released in 2013 T.S. Spivet is only a young boy but his design for a perpetual motion machine has won a contest at the Smithsonian. His father is a cowboy, his mother [&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":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}