{"id":168713,"date":"2021-02-02T04:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-and-the-hole-belongs-in-a-ditch\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:02:18","slug":"john-and-the-hole-belongs-in-a-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-and-the-hole-belongs-in-a-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"#’John and the Hole’ belongs in a ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’John and the Hole’ belongs in a ditch<\/strong>”
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Marketing materials for the new film \u201cJohn and the Hole\u201d call it \u201ca coming-of-age fable.\u201d And some critics say it\u2019s a thriller.<\/p>\n

But the darkly comic movie, which premiered last weekend in the Sundance Film Festival, would more accurately be described as the nihilistic machinations of a tiny psychopath.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not a gremlin \u2014 he\u2019s John (Charlie Shotwell), a quiet suburban boy who plays tennis video game<\/a>s all day and relies mostly on one long-distance friend for companionship. One day, he stumbles on an unfinished underground bunker in the woods beyond his backyard. It\u2019s a deep, muddy ditch with no ladder or plumbing. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s when this little punk \u2014 who, so far, has given us no impression of discontent \u2014 drugs his mom, dad and sister and plunks \u2019em in the hole. A felony for the whole family! They wake up cold and confused, trapp<\/a>ed by an awkward teenager for no expressed reason.<\/p>\n

Director Pascual Sisto and writer Nicol\u00e1s Giacobone<\/a> would seem to be commenting on Generation Z\u2019s love of isolation \u2014 Snapchat, TikTok, online games, anything but in-person interaction \u2014 and taking it to its most extreme conclusion. John\u2019s parents (Jennifer Ehle and Michael C. Hall) and sister (Taissa Farmiga) are, to him, no different than \u201cSims\u201d characters, and therefore, easily banished underground.<\/p>\n

But in telling an ambivalent story, Sisto has opted for an ambivalent tone. There is no drama \u2014 or stakes, even \u2014 as the days tick down and the hole dwellers get more disgusting and weak. It\u2019s the airport monorail of movies<\/a>: sleek, slow and anticlimactic.<\/p>\n

Farmiga, Ehle and Hall play dirty-but-forgettable roles that don\u2019t change and exacerbate the film\u2019s benign ending, which confirms the growing suspicion that you\u2019ve been wasting your time.<\/p>\n

John, meanwhile, participates in somewhat amusing \u201cHome Alone\u201d antics back at the house. He buys a large flat-screen TV to play yet more video games, withdraws hundreds of dollars out of the ATM using his parents\u2019 debit card and invites his pal over. The average person has more fun on a lockdown Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The movie\u2019s sedate tone is actually reminiscent of Scandinavian stage plays: The four-person family home is geometric and IKEA-like, the parents are generically rich, everyone\u2019s voices are colorless and nature is frequently stared at. That could be why it was originally picked to premiere last year at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn and the Hole\u201d had built some buzz prior to Sundance because it was selected for the French fest before it canceled due to the pandemic. And, like that loner you met in your high school drama club, it might fit in better someday when it moves to Europe.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’John and the Hole’ belongs in a ditch” Marketing materials for the new film \u201cJohn and the Hole\u201d call it \u201ca coming-of-age fable.\u201d And some critics say it\u2019s a thriller. But the darkly comic movie, which premiered last weekend in the Sundance Film Festival, would more accurately be described as the nihilistic machinations of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/charlie-shotwell-john-and-the-hole.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[91587,91239,75817,29333,91492],"class_list":["post-168713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-1-21","tag-jennifer-ehle","tag-michael-c-hall","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-taissa-farmiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}