{"id":1033,"date":"2007-06-14T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T04:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2007-06-14T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T04:32:33","slug":"la-cienega-the-swamp-by-lucrecia-martel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/la-cienega-the-swamp-by-lucrecia-martel\/","title":{"rendered":"La Cienega (The Swamp) by Lucrecia Martel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was way too hot to paint today so we watched a movie in a nice, dark, cool room. The movie was called <a xhref=\"http:\/\/www.filmfestivals.com\/servlet\/JSCRun?obj=FicheFilmBerlin&#038;CfgPath=ffs\/filmweb&#038;id=2359\">La Cienega<\/a>. It&#8217;s a portrait of a very strange family in Argentina. The movie includes middle aged, leather-skinned drunks, wild, untamed children, wild, untamed dogs, lots of water, thunderstorms, guns, machetes, dirty swimming pools, bar fights, racism, death, and bazaar accidents. What a crazy movie. A great portrait of a completely disfunctional Argentinian family in a severe entropic state. Crazy movie. Beautiful cinematography and wonderful interwoven plots. Lots of interesting use of symbolism (dogs, water, dragging chairs, skin, telephones, ice).<br \/>\nFavorite story from the movie (don&#8217;t read this if you want to see it). This is from memory so it&#8217;s not exact.<br \/>\nOne day a woman found a sick, dirty dog on the street. She took it home and cleaned it up. The next day she came home to find all three of her cats gone and the dog&#8217;s mouth covered in blood. She took the dog to the vet and said &#8220;I think my dog ate my cats.&#8221; The doctor took an axe and cut the dog right in half. She noticed it had two rows of sharp teeth. &#8220;This is no dog&#8221; said the doctor. &#8220;It&#8217;s an Egyptian(?) rat dog&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was way too hot to paint today so we watched a movie in a nice, dark, cool room. The movie was called La Cienega. It&#8217;s a portrait of a very strange family in Argentina. The movie includes middle aged, leather-skinned drunks, wild, untamed children, wild, untamed dogs, lots of water, thunderstorms, guns, machetes, dirty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}