{"id":175,"date":"2025-11-09T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:00:29","slug":"175-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/?page_id=175","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pastry-recroopped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pastry-recroopped.jpg 750w, https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pastry-recroopped-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Labyrinth (1986)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">9.0\/10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am so accustomed to David Bowie as a globe-crotched Goblin King, kidnapping a 13-year-old girl that he is in love with\u2026 (and her toddler brother)\u2026 that I never took the time to notice how fucked up that premise actually is\u2026 The reason why it works is because it&#8217;s entirely 13-year-old wish fulfilment that\u2019s nucleated around objects in Sarah&#8217;s room, a na\u00efve dream-collage. Jareth&#8217;s motives for loving Sarah are never examined at all\u2026 and it works because Sarah doesn&#8217;t understand romantic love &#8211; she has only heard of it and sees it in plays\/movies. Jareth is her 1-dimensional, 13-year-old rendering of what a love interest would be. Somehow, it really works.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><br>The Hoggle\/Jareth dynamic got a little tiresome (I really wish they had articulated the bottoms of Hoggle&#8217;s eyes). It was unsurprising to learn that JK Rowling stole the name Hogwart. The pacing lagged in Act 3, The Chilly-down music video was a bit contrived\/forced, and Sir Didymus felt like extra baggage. But, oh yeah, the soundtrack forever rocks\u2026 some of the best Bowie of the era (Underground being the stand-out).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><br>There are almost no themes here at all (besides \u201cprotect your baby brother\u201d), but this is a timeless, earnest, pitch-perfect, brutally original feat.<br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labyrinth (1986) 9.0\/10 I am so accustomed to David Bowie as a globe-crotched Goblin King, kidnapping a 13-year-old girl that he is in love with\u2026 (and her toddler brother)\u2026 that I never took the time to notice how fucked up that premise actually is\u2026 The reason why it works is because it&#8217;s entirely 13-year-old wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}