{"id":4109,"date":"2017-10-24T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/studentmedia\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2018-01-10T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T01:51:55","slug":"film-review-the-florida-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/film-review-the-florida-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: The Florida Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Written by Taylor Kokas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Florida Project,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> named after an early title of \u201cDisney World,\u201d follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) living week-to-week in a bubble gum colored motel called \u201cThe Magic Castle,\u201d being raised by her young, rebellious mother Halley (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bria Vinaite)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. When Moonee isn&#8217;t out on the streets with her mother \u2013 selling perfume, trespassing or stealing to make rent \u2013 she goes on adventures with her motel friends Scooty and Jancey. Making the best out of their summer, the group collects ice cream money from strangers and annoys the motel\u2019s manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moonee shows us how to make the best of what you have. However, at any moment, the reality that she experiences could be taken away from her if rent isn\u2019t paid or Bobby doesn\u2019t act as her protector. In the end, Moonee\u2019s reality is threatened when child services shows up. In this scene, she runs away to tell her friend Jancey bye, the visual transition from 35mm film to iPhone footage can be extremely frustrating and jarring to the audience. This rough transition however is a visual display, mirroring the experiences of Moonee\u2019s life. Overall the film does a good job of exposing the viewer to this overlooked world in our society and the people that experience it while taking the viewer on a ride that will be, both, heartbreaking and heartwarming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Florida Project<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was released by A24 Films on October 13th with a limited theatrical run and home video to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WwQ-NH1rRT4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;utm_source=WIDE+PR+BLAST&amp;utm_campaign=c3ec3debec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_11&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_745cb9c02a-c3ec3debec-55737739&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Written by Taylor Kokas The Florida Project, named after an early title of \u201cDisney World,\u201d follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) living week-to-week in a bubble gum colored motel called \u201cThe Magic Castle,\u201d being raised by her young, rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite). When Moonee isn&#8217;t out on the streets with her mother \u2013 selling perfume, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,20],"tags":[251,429,688,757,687],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","category-reviews","tag-film","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-taylor-kokas","tag-the-florida-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}