{"id":7564,"date":"2021-07-20T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2021-07-20T21:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:24:58","slug":"like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7564","title":{"rendered":"Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_-624x937.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MV5BODY0NTM1NjM3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQyMTM2MTI@._V1_FMjpg_UX999_.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>When I read the description of <a title=\"A young woman sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media. (Not the tagline, as there was none; probably the selfsame description I saw on Shudder, though)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3204632\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Like Me<\/a> on Shudder, what I imagined was a chick in a spree murder movie, and spoiler, that is not what it actually is.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is at times a psychedelic romp[1], at times a buddy road trip movie, at times[2] a meditation on social media fame and infamy, at times almost a comedy, and at times shockingly violent[3].<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m glad to have seen it, but I&#8217;m simultaneously not convinced it is worth the effort for anyone else to.<\/p>\n<p>[1] As movie reviewers like to say so that they can be quoted on posters and DVD covers<br \/>\n[2] And unfortunately the most boring times, since you can tell by the title that this was the point they were driving at<br \/>\n[3] This makes no sense. It&#8217;s nominally a horror movie! But something about the YouTube lens of the thing made the actual violent moments feel a lot more real than I&#8217;m used to when just watching a movie or TV in general, much less a horror movie in specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the description of Like Me on Shudder, what I imagined was a chick in a spree murder movie, and spoiler, that is not what it actually is. Instead, it is at times a psychedelic romp[1], at times a buddy road trip movie, at times[2] a meditation on social media fame and infamy, [&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":[446,1315],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-drama","tag-shudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","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=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7567,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}