{"id":29846,"date":"2025-09-21T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29846"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:31:54","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-film-a-big-bold-beautiful-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29846","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new film &#8220;A Big Bold Beautiful Journey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This romantic fantasy is worth seeing for the cast. Good-looking, talented and eminently watchable Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie play David and Sarah, strangers who meet at a mutual friend&#8217;s wedding and there are cameos from Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, aside from the cast, there is too little to commend this work from Korean-American director Kogonada (real name Park Joong Eun). The fault is the script by someone called Seth Reiss. The idea is that the GPS from a rented car takes the protagonists to a series of doorways that enables then to revisit and revise earlier memories. Sadly the notion comes over as too slow and too fragmented to work effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This romantic fantasy is worth seeing for the cast. Good-looking, talented and eminently watchable Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie play David and Sarah, strangers who meet at a mutual friend&#8217;s wedding and there are cameos from Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Unfortunately, aside from the cast, there is too little to commend this work from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29846","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\/29846","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=29846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29847,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions\/29847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}