{"id":1537,"date":"2004-05-10T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2004\/05\/10\/of-freaks-and-men\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T23:05:30","slug":"of-freaks-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2004\/05\/10\/of-freaks-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Freaks and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen picked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0156849\/\">Of Freaks and Men<\/a> to rent the other day. I usually don&#8217;t blog renters, but this is worth a mention.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a strange movie, occupying a quiet space somewhere between David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch&#8211;there was a lot about this movie that reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112817\/\">Dead Man<\/a>: the lush black-and-white cinematography, the understated violence, the lumbering pace, and Putilov&#8217;s suit. Except this is Russian. 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