{"id":6880,"date":"2016-02-08T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2016-02-08T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T04:32:13","slug":"labor-day-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/labor-day-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day | Why? A Question For Bad Movies: Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/154256426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6882\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy.jpg\" alt=\"labordaywhy\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hello and welcome to \u2018Why? A Question for Bad Movies\u2019. This series of video essays seeks to ask a simple question of bad movies: <em>Why?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I wanna give each movie an honest look, celebrate what\u2019s good about it, try to find a framework or context where it can be good, and most of all, understand the \u2018why\u2019\u2014just what is it that the filmmakers were aiming for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lately, bad movie analysis has moved into the realm of nitpicking, impotent rage, and obnoxious snark, and this my attempt to move the needle back toward giving all things a fair shake.<\/p>\n<p> Today\u2019s episode is about the early 2014 drama, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/154256426\" target=\"_blank\">Labor Day<\/a>. I\u2019ll attempt to understand how a perfect dad, a mom who exists to be depressed, and a dead-eyed son could come together to make me feel deeply uncomfortable about growing up. If you have a pie cooling on the windowsill, viewer discretion is advised:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/154256426\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/154256426\">Labor Day | Why? A Question for Bad Movies: Episode 1<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user8961352\">Carl Garcia<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/154256426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6882\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy.jpg\" alt=\"labordaywhy\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/labordaywhy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hello and welcome to \u2018Why? A Question for Bad Movies\u2019. This series of video essays seeks to ask a simple question of bad movies: <em>Why?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6880\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}