{"id":1786,"date":"2019-03-28T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2019-04-08T23:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:51:50","slug":"movie-review-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/us-poster-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1788\" width=\"260\" height=\"256\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the measure of a movie is how much you think about it afterwards, <em>Us\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>is the finest film of 2019. It&#8217;s the sort of movie that rewards  repeat viewing, because it is packed with details that you&#8217;re guaranteed not to pick up on the first time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following review isn&#8217;t entirely accurate: it claims that <em>Us\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>is largely humourless. This was written through the haze of the sheer anxiety and panic that a first run through can provoke in someone (ie me) trying to grasp exactly what is happening. It&#8217;s pretty funny at times, and not just because it has Tim Heidecker in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than that, <em>Us <\/em>is\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0painstakingly constructed film that contains <em>elements <\/em>of horror, but realistically it&#8217;s a complete experience, drawing from many different sources to become a cohesive and disturbing hole. You can take it at face value, but to give it even a little thought, you&#8217;ll be chewing on it for a long time thereafter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trespassmag.com\/review-alex-doenau-us\/\">Read the full review of <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trespassmag.com\/review-alex-doenau-us\/\">Us\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trespassmag.com\/review-alex-doenau-us\/\">on Trespass.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the measure of a movie is how much you think about it afterwards, Us\u00c2\u00a0is the finest film of 2019. It&#8217;s the sort of movie that rewards repeat viewing, because it is packed with details that you&#8217;re guaranteed not to pick up on the first time around. The following review isn&#8217;t entirely accurate: it claims that Us\u00c2\u00a0is largely humourless. This was written through the haze of the sheer anxiety and panic that a first run through can provoke in someone (ie me) trying to grasp exactly what is happening. It&#8217;s pretty funny at times, and not just because it has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","has_thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/us-publicity-still-1553198799.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-sO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}