{"id":4348,"date":"2005-04-03T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:25:51","slug":"melinda-and-melinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4348","title":{"rendered":"Melinda and Melinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Melinda-Melinda.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Is it more accurate to see life as a comedy or a tragedy? This philosophical question gives Woody Allen the hook to explore the complications that arise when an old friend shows up at her friend&#8217;s dinner party with more than a little bit of baggage. I was intrigued enough to take another look at Woody Allen who has become too repetitive for me in recent years. The film gives you a few good laughs, particularly when Will Farrell\u2019s muses over whether it would be OK for a liberal Democrat to have sex with a Republican. But on the whole it doesn\u2019t break any new ground. Allen&#8217;s problem is that he makes too many movies (one a year), leaving him no time to make a really good one. The storyline gives Radha Mitchell (who also played in <em>Finding Neverland <\/em> and <em>Man on Fire)\u00a0<\/em> the opportunity to show just how good an actress she is. Somewhat irritatingly, you feel that Woody Allen is stuck in Will Farrell&#8217;s body because you hear Woody talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it more accurate to see life as a comedy or a tragedy? This philosophical question gives Woody Allen the hook to explore the complications <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4348\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Melinda-Melinda.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"95\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/5401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}