{"id":16635,"date":"2015-01-25T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16635"},"modified":"2015-01-25T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:21:32","slug":"reviews-of-my-two-weekend-films-wild-and-ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16635","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of my two weekend films: &#8220;Wild&#8221; and &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I managed to see two movies that have only recently been released: &#8220;Wild&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsT-Y.html#Wild\">here<\/a>] and &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221;\u00a0[my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsE-G.html#ExM\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>At one level, these two movies are utterly different: &#8220;Wild&#8221; is a true story, set in the near past, and covers geography of over 1,000 miles of open land, &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221; is a fictional story, set in the near future, and location in one claustrophobic building.<\/p>\n<p>But, at another level, there is something very similar between the two works: both centre on a woman who us seeking to gain control over her life &#8211; great performances from Reese Witherspoon in &#8220;Wild&#8221; and Alicia Vikander in &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221;. Go see \u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I managed to see two movies that have only recently been released: &#8220;Wild&#8221; [my review here] and &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221;\u00a0[my review here]. At one level, these two movies are utterly different: &#8220;Wild&#8221; is a true story, set in the near past, and covers geography of over 1,000 miles of open land, &#8220;Ex Machina&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16639,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16635\/revisions\/16639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}