{"id":596,"date":"2008-11-16T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:48:51","slug":"dvd-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-mitchell-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/dvd-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-mitchell-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Still utterly terrific, despite a minor 3rd Act disintegration, this film is proving to me that it will be a classic for decades. The music still holds up, Origin of Love<\/span> being one of the best songs to appear in a film ever (maybe the<\/span> best), the acting is spectacular, the dialogue sharp, and the pace is brisk. The last 1\/3 shows signs of falling apart, though. Songs Exquisite Corpse<\/span> and Midnight Radio<\/span> hold little interest for me lyrically and musically, and multiple endings move from one to the other in too rushed of a way. But it has never been enough to sink the brilliant first hour. It deals intelligently with one of the most interesting “genres” of sexuality to me: transvestites. The film comes close to treating non-hetero characters as unafflicted by society: mothers, friends, and the general public show no qualms with the men in drag and same-sex marriage, only once or twice breaking that, like when a man shouts “Faggot!” during Angry Inch<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still utterly terrific, despite a minor 3rd Act disintegration, this film is proving to me that it will be a classic for decades. The music still holds up, Origin of Love being one of the best songs to appear in a film ever (maybe the best), the acting is spectacular, the dialogue sharp, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3402,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}