{"id":235,"date":"2003-04-06T19:18:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/04\/06\/breaking-the-waves\/"},"modified":"2003-04-06T19:18:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T19:18:28","slug":"breaking-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/04\/06\/breaking-the-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been renting quite a few videos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heffers.co.uk\/\">Heffers<\/a> recently, this weekend&#8217;s was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Details?0115751\">Breaking the Waves<\/a>.  I had heard lots of good things about it but missed it when it first came out and had never got round to seeing it.  Maybe I was expecting too much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve liked the other Lars von Trier films I&#8217;ve seen but Breaking the Waves was just dull.  I didn&#8217;t feel any involvement with the characters, most of whom were utterly two-dimensional.  After watching quite a lot of european co-productions I can handle the random foreign actors, but none of the cast seemed to be trying very hard.<\/p>\n<p>The photography was also very intrusive, the hand-held shakycam work grated after a while and the poor lighting made some scenes look like somebody&#8217;s home video.  This may have been deliberately using natural light but there&#8217;s nothing natural about films, the film medium doesn&#8217;t have the same range as the human eye, you need extra light.<\/p>\n<p>I actually got up halfway through the film to hang up my washing, that&#8217;s how much the film grabbed me.  I amused myself by trying to guess when the film was supposed to be set but never did work it out (70&#8217;s cars but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayfarer.co.uk\/index.htm\">80&#8217;s ticket machine<\/a> on the bus, how geeky is that?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been renting quite a few videos from Heffers recently, this weekend&#8217;s was Breaking the Waves. I had heard lots of good things about it but missed it when it first came out and had never got round to seeing it. Maybe I was expecting too much. I&#8217;ve liked the other Lars von Trier films [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}