{"id":35180,"date":"2019-10-13T21:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35180"},"modified":"2019-10-13T21:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:21:04","slug":"romesh-ranganathan-joker-left-me-in-need-of-a-lie-down-is-the-lion-king-more-my-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35180","title":{"rendered":"Romesh Ranganathan:&nbsp;Joker&nbsp;left me&nbsp;in need of a lie down. Is The Lion King more my style?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the need for challenging art but I prefer to leave the cinema feeling elated<\/p>\n<p>Being on tour means that I can indulge in grown-up cinema experiences, but simply within the band of films that my spouse would not like to see, too. We have a nice ongoing thing where we agree to watch films together, never have the time or childcare to do it, and so never watch the movies. It&rsquo;s a lovely tradition.<\/p>\n<p>So, on tour, I went to see Joker. Once I had get past my initial fury at having to pay a lot of fund to be advertised to for over half an hour( much of which was telling me how great the cinema that I&rsquo;d already bought a ticket to be in was ), I resolved down to watch Joaquin Phoenix deliver one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/oct\/06\/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix-ace-turn\" title=\"\">award-winning performances<\/a> that has everybody raving about how it&rsquo;s going to win Oscars, before the inevitable backlash, part of which has suggested that this film isn&rsquo;t just dark, it&rsquo;s dangerous.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/oct\/12\/romesh-ranganathan-is-the-lion-king-more-my-style-than-joker\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/oct\/12\/romesh-ranganathan-is-the-lion-king-more-my-style-than-joker\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the need for challenging art but I prefer to leave the cinema feeling elated Being on tour means that I can indulge in grown-up cinema experiences, but simply within the band of films that my spouse would not like to see, too. We have a nice ongoing thing where we agree to watch &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1573,19999,15697],"class_list":["post-35180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-film","tag-joker","tag-life-and-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/24241571001664.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}