{"id":5377,"date":"2023-06-23T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/in-asteroid-city-wes-anderson-stages-an-alien-invasion-as-only-wes-anderson-can\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:11:11","slug":"in-asteroid-city-wes-anderson-stages-an-alien-invasion-as-only-wes-anderson-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/in-asteroid-city-wes-anderson-stages-an-alien-invasion-as-only-wes-anderson-can\/","title":{"rendered":"In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson stages an alien invasion as only Wes Anderson can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Insistently eccentric, involuted and reflexive, Wes Anderson\u2019s Asteroid City\u00a0will likely only reinforce his detractors\u2019 animus toward the filmmaker\u2019s elaborate but undeniably insular world-building, but admirers \u2014 and I\u2019m among them \u2014 will delight in the dizzying variations he works on signature themes and tropes. Although Asteroid City\u00a0sometimes comes perilously close to the Rube Goldbergian joke constructions of Steven Spielberg\u2019s 1941\u00a0\u2014 with setups so baroquely complex that the payoff laughs are more theoretical than actual \u2014 it never tips over into self-indulgence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insistently eccentric, involuted and reflexive, Wes Anderson\u2019s Asteroid City\u00a0will likely only reinforce his detractors\u2019 animus toward the filmmaker\u2019s elaborate but undeniably insular world-building, but admirers \u2014 and I\u2019m among them \u2014 will delight in the dizzying variations he works on signature themes and tropes. Although Asteroid City\u00a0sometimes comes perilously close to the Rube Goldbergian joke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}