{"id":751,"date":"2009-05-15T08:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2009-07-02T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T15:57:24","slug":"movie-review-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &#8220;Passengers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very slow developing &#8220;sixth sense&#8221;-like movie. The main character, a washed-out psychiatrist (sounds familiar?), tried to help the survivors getting over the post-traumatic symptoms. The bad guy from the airlines was the pilot that didn&#8217;t save the airplane from crashing because he wasn&#8217;t at the captain seat when the plane engine burst to flame.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, they, including the main characters, are the living dead. And perhaps the entire setting is fake for their benefit &#8211; another &#8220;Matrix&#8221;? They just need to convince themselves or be convinced by their dead loved ones that they&#8217;re really dead. It&#8217;s full of decoys, like buses and cars stopping, to confuse the audience thinking that all these survivors are alive. Interesting twist near the end. <\/p>\n<p>The movie is a bit creepy but a interesting angle borrowed from &#8220;Sixth Sense&#8221; and &#8220;Matrix.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=learbyblog-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001P3SA9E&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/passengers.jpg\" alt=\"passengers\" title=\"passengers\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/passengers.jpg 240w, https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/passengers-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very slow developing &#8220;sixth sense&#8221;-like movie. The main character, a washed-out psychiatrist (sounds familiar?), tried to help the survivors getting over the post-traumatic symptoms. The bad guy from the airlines was the pilot that didn&#8217;t save the airplane from crashing because he wasn&#8217;t at the captain seat when the plane engine burst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movie Review: &#8220;Passengers&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}