{"id":410,"date":"2003-12-12T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/12\/12\/a-matter-of-taste\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T15:51:57","slug":"a-matter-of-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/a-matter-of-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"A matter of taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Taylor, a writer and movie critic I often agree with, published a rather bad review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003_12_01_archive.html#107116511387936839\">The Girl with a Peal Earring<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/review\/2003\/12\/12\/pearl_earring\/\">Salon<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&rsquo;t like the book it was based on, which probably didn&rsquo;t help. It&rsquo;s also funny to see that he wished for more physical interaction between the main characters, when that&rsquo;s exactly what I feared (not in general, just in this specific movie&#8230;):<\/p>\n<p><em>This Vermeer is a gent, saving Griet from the attentions of his slimy patron (Tom Wilkinson), and never letting his own ardor for her trespass into the physical realm (the movie would have been a hell of a lot better if it had), sticking to their understanding about light and color.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can&rsquo;t a relationship be based on a mutual understanding about light and color? Can&rsquo;t desire arise from a pure aesthete connection? No, no, I&rsquo;m not a romantic, I&rsquo;m an idealist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Taylor, a writer and movie critic I often agree with, published a rather bad review of The Girl with a Peal Earring in Salon today. He didn&rsquo;t like the book it was based on, which probably didn&rsquo;t help. It&rsquo;s also funny to see that he wished for more physical interaction between the main characters,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/12\/a-matter-of-taste\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A matter of taste<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}