{"id":2121,"date":"2013-10-25T21:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2015-03-31T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:11:26","slug":"the-place-beyond-the-pines-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"The Place Beyond the Pines (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2140\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Place-Beyond-the-Pines.jpg\" alt=\"The Place Beyond the Pines\" width=\"128\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Place-Beyond-the-Pines.jpg 214w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Place-Beyond-the-Pines-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This film supposedly takes place in Schenectady, NY and follows parallel lives of two characters, a tattooed carnival stunt motorcycle driver played by Ryan Gosling and a young honest cop played by Bradley Cooper.\u00a0 Their\u00a0lives\u00a0cross when Cooper chases down and kills Gosling&#8217;s character after he robs a bank trying to provide for\u00a0the infant son from a one night stand with a waitress played by Eva Mendes. This act of violence causes others to call him a hero and we&#8217;re then immersed in a world of crooked police officers and life-changing moral dilemmas. The film then jumps ahead 15 years when the\u00a0two teenage sons&#8217;\u00a0paths cross and cause us to see what went before in a whole different way. It&#8217;s a very intense film with great\u00a0characters who are just trying to get through each day to support and provide for their family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film supposedly takes place in Schenectady, NY and follows parallel lives of two characters, a tattooed carnival stunt motorcycle driver played by Ryan Gosling and a young honest cop played by Bradley Cooper.\u00a0 Their\u00a0lives\u00a0cross when Cooper chases down and kills Gosling&#8217;s character after he robs a bank trying to provide for\u00a0the infant son from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Place Beyond the Pines (DVD)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-fiction","category-movies-for-adults","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}