{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-25T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/03\/25\/the-ugly-truth\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T18:46:26","slug":"the-ugly-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/2007\/03\/25\/the-ugly-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Ever since I first saw <em>Gates of Heaven<\/em> I have been thinking about Errol Morris, human nature, truth, and details.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Actually, watching Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s films has gotten me thinking about Stephen King novels. I have always been a Stephen King fan, and I can tell you exactly the reason why: his characters. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if any of you have read a Stephen King novel, but if you have, I know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll agree with me: his characters are amazing. There isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a single flat character. Every character has some sort of significance, even if they only say one word, and you forget them half a page later. They are all vivid, realistic characters. Granted, Stephen King doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always portray humanity in the prettiest of lights, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I like so much about him: humans aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pretty! We are sometimes base, gross, disgusting, strange things. I think this is a memo that Stephen King and Errol Morris both got that most of the rest of their peers did not. Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character just like Stephen King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s: a little strange, kind of bizarre, sometimes pretty depressing, and very, very true to life. These are real people! These aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actors; they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to be anyone other than themselves.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you guys, but I find myself more unnerved by true people, and the truth that comes with them, than any made up character in a book or film.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first saw Gates of Heaven I have been thinking about Errol Morris, human nature, truth, and details. Actually, watching Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s films has gotten me thinking about Stephen King novels. I have always been a Stephen King fan, and I can tell you exactly the reason why: his characters. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errol-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/lscot7ow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}