{"id":24,"date":"2007-10-27T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-10-27T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T04:23:21","slug":"gone-baby-gone-is-worth-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/27\/gone-baby-gone-is-worth-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gone Baby Gone&#8217; is worth watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go see &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0452623\/\" title=\"IMDB: Gone Baby Gone\" target=\"_blank\">Gone Baby Gone<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got good acting, some twists and good ol&#8217; fashion moral ambiguity. \u00a0  The kind of ambiguity that was around before everything started feeling like a politically correct press release and is going to be around once again when we come to our senses. \u00a0 And nothing against PR departments and carefully crafted images but I happen to like the areas in between what we we are comfortable with: when we can ask questions of ourselves and not have ready answers we may learn something about ourselves and possibly others.\u00a0 I think of it like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson#Jefferson_and_slavery\" title=\"Wkipedia: Thomas Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">how Jefferson rationalized writing a constitution to protect the inalienable rights of citizens while sleeping with his slaves.<\/a> Props to the Afflecks for making this movie, Ben direction, Casey lead;\u00a0 Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, and a slew of other excellent authentic performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go see &#8216;Gone Baby Gone&#8216;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got good acting, some twists and good ol&#8217; fashion moral ambiguity. \u00a0 The kind of ambiguity that was around before everything started feeling like a politically correct press release and is going to be around once again when we come to our senses. \u00a0 And nothing against PR departments and carefully crafted images but I happen to like the areas in between what we we are comfortable with: when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,22],"tags":[47,291,80,102,263],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ethics","category-movies","tag-affleck","tag-ethics","tag-gone-baby-gone","tag-moral-ambiguity","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}