{"id":92,"date":"2007-03-13T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rad.net.nz\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-03-13T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:20:24","slug":"shortbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2007\/03\/13\/shortbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the sexy film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000LAZDQA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rad%5Fblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000LAZDQA\">Shortbus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rad_blog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000LAZDQA\" style=\"border:medium none!important;margin:0!important;\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> on Sunday night. Set in NY it explores the interconnected sex lives and relationships of several people, both queer and straight. It is a sad and funny film &#8211; probably a deliberate commentary on the bittersweet nature of the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>It is sexually explicit but not really titillating. In this way it removes the sensuality from the sexual act to lay bare its meaning in relationship and as a way for people to connect. Sex stands in the film as a sacrament for something much deeper and profound.<\/p>\n<p>The other spiritual motif is the &#8220;stalker&#8221; neighbour who has a god&#8217;s eye view of the central gay couple, along with saving James&#8217;s life and offering a omnipotent insight into how he is loved by Jamie.<\/p>\n<p>Score: 7\/10<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the sexy film Shortbus on Sunday night. Set in NY it explores the interconnected sex lives and relationships of several people, both queer and straight. It is a sad and funny film &#8211; probably a deliberate commentary on the bittersweet nature of the subject matter. It is sexually explicit but not really titillating. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}