{"id":170912,"date":"2021-09-17T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=170912"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:25:17","slug":"review-blue-bayou-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=170912","title":{"rendered":"Review: Blue Bayou<\/i> (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI reviewed Justin Chon’s latest, Blue Bayou<\/i><\/a> for Ebert. It has some major issues, but the story he’s telling here is urgent and devastating – and that still comes across. (I reviewed Chon’s 2019 film Ms. Purple<\/i><\/a>, which had similar problems – an over-reliance on super-obvious symbolism, short-story-ish, amateur literary-ish. The rest of it is so good and such an interesting look at a sub-culture the moviegoing public – and America – doesn’t normally see. So … he has a lot going for him. His perspective is unique. I think he needs to retire his love of symbolism. He gets in his own way. Just my two cents. Still: well worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I reviewed Justin Chon’s latest, Blue Bayou for Ebert. It has some major issues, but the story he’s telling here is urgent and devastating – and that still comes across. (I reviewed Chon’s 2019 film Ms. Purple, which had similar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2668,2509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170964,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170912\/revisions\/170964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}