{"id":141,"date":"2016-09-14T20:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-09-14T20:41:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:41:49","slug":"hell-or-high-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/hell-or-high-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell or High Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQoqsKoJVDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally another decent movie has come along in 2016. The last film that I would have heartily recommended was Eye in the Sky. This summer has been a bust, so I was thankful for David Mackenzie&#8217;s perfectly paced Texan drama. It follows two pairs of men: Chris Pine and brother Ben Foster, who are robbing a series of Texas Midland banks, and Texan Rangers Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham pursuing them. Within both pairs there is dry, sparring humour and a believable basis for a relationship. All four play it perfectly, and the minor characters all add the right level of shade. <\/p>\n<p>The story follows the bank robbers over the barren, post recession Texan landscape. Mackenzie doesn&#8217;t over-indulge this setting, although it is masterfully shot, nor does he play it for pure action. It isn&#8217;t pure Southern gothic, it&#8217;s played fairly straight without stylistic flourishes. It&#8217;s as much Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry as it is True Detective. I&#8217;m not sure it has that much to say about the human condition &#8211; it&#8217;s just a beautiful, thick slab of Americana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally another decent movie has come along in 2016. The last film that I would have heartily recommended was Eye in the Sky. This summer has been a bust, so I was thankful for David Mackenzie&#8217;s perfectly paced Texan drama. It follows two pairs of men: Chris Pine and brother&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/drama\/hell-or-high-water\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechie.net\/barracuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}