{"id":4018,"date":"2007-05-02T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/05\/02\/art-imitates-life-imitates-art\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:11:45","slug":"art-imitates-life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/05\/02\/art-imitates-life-imitates-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Art imitates Life imitates Art&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful opening paragraph from a <a href=\"http:\/\/criterioncollection.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/51-brazil.html\" title=\"The Criterion Contraption: Brazil\">review<\/a> of one of my favorite movies, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000G8NXZK%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000G8NXZK%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"'Brazil - The Criterion Collection (3-Disc Boxed Set)' (Criterion)\">Brazil<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In <em>Brazil<\/em>, Terry Gilliam asks the audience to imagine a world where the government wages a never-ending war with shadowy terrorists, a world where civil liberties are being destroyed in the name of security, a world where torture becomes official state policy in order to conduct more efficient interrogations of suspected terrorists. What&#8217;s more, in Gilliam&#8217;s fictional world, the central government is not just secretive but incompetent. Mistakes are made, leading to the imprisonment and torture of innocents. Most offensive of all, Gilliam implies that such a government could exist without its citizens staging an armed revolt. I&#8217;m usually willing to suspend disbelief, but this goes too entirely too far.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m usually willing to suspend disbelief, but this goes too entirely too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[2590,23,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}