{"id":21,"date":"2013-07-23T23:13:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T23:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robgue.com\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-02-22T23:23:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T23:23:40","slug":"mushrooms-magic-and-mayhem-in-a-field-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Mushrooms, Magic and Mayhem in A Field in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having enjoyed and endured (in almost equally pleasurable measure) Ben Wheatley\u2019s Kill List, I had very high hopes for A Field in England (or Dude, Where\u2019s My Alehouse?). With the premise of a magic mushroom-fuelled nightmare ride through the margins of the English Civil War, this was clearly not going to be standard multiplex fare. The plot, what there is of one, keeps you off balance, as does the cinematography. Michael Smiley is terrific as the bonkers and rather frightening O\u2019Neill, but Reece Shearsmith is the real star of AFIE. In particular, the slo-mo start to the \u2018divining sequence\u2019 is a truly grotesque and macabre piece of cinema that will live long in the memory. Two days after that first viewing I\u2019m still not sure what I made of it all, and I need to watch it again, not in a \u2018Wow, that was amazing!\u2019 kind of way but rather a \u2018What the heck?\u2019 kind of way. Maybe I just need more mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the trailer for the uninitiated:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cRRvzjkzu2U\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRRvzjkzu2U?feature=oembed\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update 22 July 13: So I watched AFIE a second time and I am happy to report that this is a film which gets better with every viewing. In fact, I\u2019m prepared to give it \u2018potential future classic\u2019 status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having enjoyed and endured (in almost equally pleasurable measure) Ben Wheatley\u2019s Kill List, I had very high hopes for A Field in England (or Dude, Where\u2019s My Alehouse?). With the premise of a magic mushroom-fuelled nightmare ride through the margins of the English Civil War, this was clearly not going to be standard multiplex fare. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robgue.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}