{"id":1296,"date":"2009-07-22T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2009-07-22T00:29:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T05:29:25","slug":"fine-totally-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Fine, Totally Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe mainstream Japanese cinema is just as formulaic and tired as Hollywood movies, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if the Japanese movies they screen at Fantasia are typical for J-movies or if they are considered indie in their own country.\u00a0 All I do know is that I loves me some J-cinema, based on the Fantasia fare I&#8217;ve seen.\u00a0 <em>Fine, Totally Fine<\/em> is at its core a romantic comedy but it is unconventional and sweet and mellow in a way Hollywood romcoms never are.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no bullshit like mistaken identity or other flub-up that needs to be fixed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just about people living their lives and being quietly attracted to one another in spite of\u00a0their obliviousness.\u00a0 No one changes in this movie, no one gets a makeover, no one has an epiphany, no one really grows or achieves much of anything\u00a0even when they try to.\u00a0 They just live and love and carry on.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s all fucking hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>[rating:40]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe mainstream Japanese cinema is just as formulaic and tired as Hollywood movies, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if the Japanese movies they screen at Fantasia are typical for J-movies or if they are considered indie in their own country.\u00a0 All I do know is that I loves me some J-cinema, based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}