{"id":1272,"date":"2024-12-05T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2024-12-08T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T00:27:45","slug":"kinds-of-kindness-thursday-december-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/05\/kinds-of-kindness-thursday-december-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinds of Kindness. When life gives you Plemons…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The critics largely panned this, and I admit that it took me a while to get around to watching it for that reason, but… Lanthimos is Lanthimos, and when a best friend described her reaction to this as “flabbergasted” last week, I just had to watch it then and there. “Flabbergasted” was a perfect term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I imagine that this project was hatched during the making of his last film. As he often does, he retained most of the actors from the hugely successful Poor Things<\/em>, and went on to make Kinds of Kindness<\/em> with them. I suspect there was a lot of input from this stellar cast, Emma Stone in particular (this is just me speculating…). Mark Ruffalo, who was brilliant in Poor Things<\/em>, was swapped out for Jesse Plemons, who took it to a whole ‘nother level(s). “It girl” Margaret Qually graduated from bit part (Dafoe (as “God”)’s new experiment at the end of Poor Things<\/em>) to powerhouse character(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our guests tonight had seen Kinds of Kindness<\/em> before, and wanted to see it again, suspecting that a second watching would bring more focus. He was right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, I found this <\/a>article<\/a> that, aside from one minor inaccuracy*, explains a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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*The hair caught in the swimming pool pump was not one of the synchronized swimmer twins’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The critics largely panned this, and I admit that it took me a while to get around to watching it for that reason, but… Lanthimos is Lanthimos, and when a best friend described her reaction to this as “flabbergasted” last week, I just had to watch it then and there. “Flabbergasted” was a perfect term. … Continue reading Kinds of Kindness. When life gives you Plemons…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}