{"id":214,"date":"2007-07-01T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/2007\/07\/01\/it-happened-once-and-so-it-will-be-forever\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T23:10:50","slug":"it-happened-once-and-so-it-will-be-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/2007\/07\/01\/it-happened-once-and-so-it-will-be-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It happened once, and so it will be forever.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished <em>Wings of Desire<\/em> (<em>Der Himmel \u00c3\u00bcber Berlin<\/em>) and I feel like I need to watch it several more times just to catch everything that was in it. I&#8217;m not sure what I expected, but it was certainly more philosophical than I thought it would be. Some great lines, and the most extraordinary thing about it was that these amazing lines were just kind-of slipped in there. Not dressed up at all, not even much attention drawn to it. Just there to be breathed in by the audience. I want to watch it over and over until I understand every line, every symbol, every color, every conversation, every expression. I&#8217;m sure about 90% of it went right over my head the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful film, and I&#8217;m not going to be done with it for years, I suspect. If ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/20392_0003.jpg\" title=\"20392_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/20392_0003.jpg\" alt=\"20392_0003.jpg\" height=\"181\" width=\"251\" \/><\/a>    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/image010.jpg\" title=\"image010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/image010.jpg\" alt=\"image010.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/wings_of_desire.jpg\" title=\"wings_of_desire.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/files\/2007\/07\/wings_of_desire.jpg\" alt=\"wings_of_desire.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Wings of Desire (Der Himmel \u00c3\u00bcber Berlin) and I feel like I need to watch it several more times just to catch everything that was in it. I&#8217;m not sure what I expected, but it was certainly more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/2007\/07\/01\/it-happened-once-and-so-it-will-be-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/serena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}