{"id":433,"date":"2007-01-31T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=433"},"modified":"2007-01-29T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T05:05:24","slug":"hard-candy-is-some-fine-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/31\/hard-candy-is-some-fine-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Candy is some fine stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000GI3KGC%26tag=manalangcom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000GI3KGC%253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ec2.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000GI3KGC.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_V40651105_.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Hard Candy\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/\">WeatherGirl<\/a> has written one of <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/archives\/2007\/01\/27\/hard-candy\/\">her wonderful mini-reviews<\/a> of the film <i>Hard Candy<\/i>, which we saw over the weekend.  I just want to echo the positive sentiments.  It&#8217;s a remarkable example of the power of quality writing and acting, of creativity and talent over special effects and flash.  Not easy going, but absolutely worth it.  And if you haven&#8217;t seen it, don&#8217;t trust any sense you&#8217;ve formed of the film from things you&#8217;ve read or seen.  It&#8217;s a remarkably hard thing to describe, and it&#8217;s difficult to imagine any amount of textual description truly anticipating the experience of watching it.<\/p>\n<p>There is <em>much<\/em> that is worthy of praise in this, but I must put in a plug for the amazing camera work.  The colors and image composition and focus work are all quite outstanding.  I&#8217;d have a hard time pull that sort of stuff together in a single <em>still<\/em> shot, and they pulled it off in (moving) frame after frame.  Wow.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeatherGirl has written one of her wonderful mini-reviews of the film Hard Candy, which we saw over the weekend. I just want to echo the positive sentiments. It&#8217;s a remarkable example of the power of quality writing and acting, of creativity and talent over special effects and flash. Not easy going, but absolutely worth it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/31\/hard-candy-is-some-fine-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hard Candy is some fine stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":562,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/05\/25\/pirates-3-was-good-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":0},"title":"Pirates 3 was good fun","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 May 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite Skatje's warnings (via PeeZed) about the crowds (or what passes for such here in sleepy Morris), we all saw Pirates of the Carribean 3 tonight. By the time we saw the warning (great use of PeeZed's blog!), Sub-Evil Boy had already headed out in an effort to stake out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Films&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Films","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/films\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/12\/26\/time-to-mix-it-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":1},"title":"Time to mix it up!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Dec 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, I bet this is gonna be fun! The good people at ccMixter.org (related to CreativeCommons.org) are sponsoring a cool contest: This is a contest for artists to mix audio tracks under 4 minutes which use provided voice samples from Ben Franzen and Kembrew McLeod's forthcoming film, \"Copyright Criminals.\" Samples\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":872,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":2},"title":"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"11 Sep 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Lacking the time or neural function to generate any new content, I'll instead pretend to be engaging in some sort of hip new mash-up by dropping two wildly different videos on you. Connections? Nope. Cool synthesis that comments on the post-modern state? Doubt it. Worth the time? Probably. The first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":361,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/07\/17\/robert-fitzgerald-candidate-for-us-senate-in-minnesota\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":3},"title":"Robert Fitzgerald, candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"17 Jul 06","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the recurring features of small town summer parades in the mid-west is politics, and yesterday's Prairie Pioneer Days parade here in Morris must have had 8-10 different politicians ranging from the local sherriff up to candidates for U.S. Senate. Included in this motley crew was Robert Fitzgerald, who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":682,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/14\/fast-film-definitely-worth-a-quick-look\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":4},"title":"Fast Film definitely worth a quick look","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"14 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"I dug up this short film by Virgil Widrich after seeing Lessig use a bit of it in his TED talk, and it's one of those amazing bits of hyper-obsessive homage that you just have to admire, even though you're probably grateful that you'd never have the time for this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":235,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/shultze-rocked-but-very-quietly\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":5},"title":"Shultze rocked (but very quietly)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"16 Sep 05","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago I babbled incoherently about the film Shultze gets the blues and, as promised, we invited my FYS students over to the house to eatch the film with us. So last Sunday five students came to the house to watch the film. The short version? 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