{"id":2798,"date":"2011-04-16T21:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T03:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2011-04-16T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T03:08:45","slug":"the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"The Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, with only two movies left, I&#8217;m caught up again. It is convenient that after burning through several movies in a row, the most recent one is also the one I&#8217;ve liked best today. Playing on the fears (and in some cases, almost certainly the fantasies) of a post-Columbine public, <a title=\"Consequences. None of us are free from them.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1390535\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Final<\/a> presents a group of high school misfits led by the President of Holden Caulfield&#8217;s fan club who hatch a plot to get all of their tormentors together at a weekend party for a series of deadly lessons on the nature of being pushed too far.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a subplot about a racist Vietnam vet, pretty much every character in every scene is filled with pathos and well-presented anger in equal measure, by the end of the movie if not <em>in<\/em> any given scene. There are a few good guys, but nearly everyone is a bad guy at some time or another, and that part of high school doesn&#8217;t show up on the screen very often. Still, the plot was mostly predictable once all the characters were set in motion by the middle third of the movie; the real joy here was the acting. I may or may not have liked <a title=\"My review of Kill Theory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2776\" target=\"_blank\">Kill Theory<\/a> better, but this is certainly the only one so far I&#8217;d recommend to anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, with only two movies left, I&#8217;m caught up again. It is convenient that after burning through several movies in a row, the most recent one is also the one I&#8217;ve liked best today. Playing on the fears (and in some cases, almost certainly the fantasies) of a post-Columbine public, The Final presents a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}