{"id":1974,"date":"2002-01-18T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2002-01-18T08:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2002-01-18T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2002-01-18T08:45:30","slug":"so-last-night-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/01\/18\/so-last-night-i-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"so, last night I saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, last night I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0228687\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"IMDB\">Little Otik<\/a>. What a strange, strange film. Plot summary: a childless and infertile couple are digging in the garden and find a tree stump that looks like a baby. They choose to adopt it, and through their love the stump comes to life. It then proceeds to eat everything it sees.<br \/>\nI think Bren and Greg were a bit fazed by it. At the end of it, you were simply left with a dazed feeling and the thought that &#8220;that was completely barking mad!&#8221; The fact that the film is a combination of live action and animation enhances that feeling &#8211; there is no attempt to hide the bizarreness of the story by trying to use CGI to make the wooden baby more lifelike.<br \/>\nIt is possibly just a little too long at two hours, but I&#8217;d recommend it to anyone who can enjoy a completely bizarre and strange story presented in a spare and stark manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, last night I saw Little Otik. What a strange, strange film. Plot summary: a childless and infertile couple are digging in the garden and find a tree stump that looks like a baby. They choose to adopt it, and through their love the stump comes to life. It then proceeds to eat everything it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}