{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-19T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/19\/my-existence-has-significantly-improved-because-errol-morris-exists-on-this-earth\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T03:33:16","slug":"my-existence-has-significantly-improved-because-errol-morris-exists-on-this-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/19\/my-existence-has-significantly-improved-because-errol-morris-exists-on-this-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"My existence has significantly improved because Errol Morris exists on this earth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away all weekend in Georgia, so I just got to watching Gates of Heaven tonight.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And let me tell you, it is one of those things where I have hope for this entire universe and all of mankind because Errol Morris shares our oxygen supply.\u00c2\u00a0 Gates of Heaven was brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 It was brilliant because it is <em>real<\/em>, and Morris manages to perfectly capture the absurbity of reality itself.\u00c2\u00a0 He has managed to catch a piece of life itself and put it on film.\u00c2\u00a0 I am infinitely impressed.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brad was saying today how Morris had the power of editing, and the difference that probably made in the documentary.\u00c2\u00a0 I agree with this&#8211;he has created the movie, rather than it really being just life.\u00c2\u00a0 But I think it is justifiable for him to do so.\u00c2\u00a0 Every shot, every scene&#8211;everything about the way the movie is set up is so perfectly and horribly real.\u00c2\u00a0 I loved the old lady on the porch, the stream of consciousness, these people&#8230;I need to own this movie, and watch it all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Let&#8217;s keep discussing it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away all weekend in Georgia, so I just got to watching Gates of Heaven tonight.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And let me tell you, it is one of those things where I have hope for this entire universe and all of mankind because Errol Morris shares our oxygen supply.\u00c2\u00a0 Gates of Heaven was brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 It was brilliant because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}