{"id":4743,"date":"2014-11-12T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T01:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2014-11-12T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T01:28:39","slug":"john-wick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4743","title":{"rendered":"John Wick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MV5BMTU2NjA1ODgzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTM2MTI4MjE@._V1__SX1859_SY893_.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Ironically, I remember <a title=\"Don't Set Him Off!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2911666\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Wick<\/a> plenty well, since I only saw it like a week ago. Well, no, that&#8217;s not ironic at all. That was the premise for the <em>actually<\/em> ironic thing, which is how little I want to say about the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Partly this is because it&#8217;s a non-science-fictional action movie starring Keanu Reeves, and I think everyone on the planet has decided whether they are interested in that movie no matter what I have to say about it. But mostly it&#8217;s because this is the purest, least objectionable[1] revenge movie ever made, and I don&#8217;t want to take anything away from the impact of that purity and clarity of focus by actually discussing it.<\/p>\n<p>So if you need catharsis for something? This might well work.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Least objectionable motive for revenge, is what I mean to say. Obviously, objectionable things <em>happen<\/em>, not least among them the impetus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ironically, I remember John Wick plenty well, since I only saw it like a week ago. Well, no, that&#8217;s not ironic at all. That was the premise for the actually ironic thing, which is how little I want to say about the movie. Partly this is because it&#8217;s a non-science-fictional action movie starring Keanu Reeves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,513],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}