{"id":138,"date":"2019-03-07T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2019-03-11T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:06:49","slug":"border-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/border-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Border. Troll-y F**k!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/border3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\"\/><figcaption>New love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Border<\/em> came as a complete surprise to many of our guests this week! Ali Abbasi&#8217;s fantasy drama centers around a romance between two trolls. One is unaware of her origin, thinking that she is a human with a genetic flaw, and has assimilated into society, working as a customs agent and able to &#8220;smell fear&#8221; on would-be bad actors. The other lives rough, eats larvae, and has sworn vengeance upon the wicked human race for the horrible treatment of his parents, and other trolls in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are subplots and twists aplenty in this fascinating film, but one takeaway: trolls don&#8217;t hold back during orgasm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#8217;s short was the delightful <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Stems (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/264137664\" target=\"_blank\">Stems<\/a>, a stop motion film by Ainslie Henderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5501104\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border came as a complete surprise to many of our guests this week! Ali Abbasi&#8217;s fantasy drama centers around a romance between two trolls. One is unaware of her origin, thinking that she is a human with a genetic flaw, and has assimilated into society, working as a customs agent and able to &#8220;smell fear&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/border-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Border. Troll-y F**k!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-life","category-movies","category-strange-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}