{"id":15643,"date":"2015-06-18T03:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2015-06-18T03:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:28:37","slug":"honor-student-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/honor-student-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Student (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HS.jpg\" alt=\"HS\" width=\"565\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HS.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HS-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HS-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to pretend I enjoyed \u201cHonor Student\u201d if only because the movie is so inexplicable and miserable it\u2019s tough to pinpoint what it\u2019s going for. I watched it twice and spent my time scratching my head as to what it was trying to get across and what in the world the finale meant, if anything.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s seemingly the life of a young woman who spends her days wiling life away at a bargain bin store, working her butt off, and comes home to wait for the next day where she can seemingly waste her life away. Told through a montage and series of scenes without any dialogue, \u201cHonor Student\u201d hops along conveying a narrative that\u2019s nearly impossible to decipher. Is it a tale about the woes of poverty? Is it a tale about the woes of the lower class? Is there some kind of sanctimonious message about the economy here? And what in the world did the final scene even mean?<\/p>\n<p>Was that the daughter of the woman who she\u2019d forgotten in her everyday tedium? Was she the younger version of the woman sparing herself a lifetime of nonsense and nothingness? It\u2019s never explained and frankly the finale feels utterly gratuitous and unnecessary. \u201cHonor Student\u201d really feels like a missed opportunity, as somewhere here there\u2019s an interesting story tucked away. It\u2019s just lost in a lot of aimless scenery and montages. Koontz is a strong director who paints the misery of life well. I just wish \u201cHonor Student\u201d carried his talent in to a meaningful and interesting narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not going to pretend I enjoyed \u201cHonor Student\u201d if only because the movie is so inexplicable and miserable it\u2019s tough to pinpoint what it\u2019s going for. I watched it twice and spent my time scratching my head as to what it was trying to get across and what in the world the finale meant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,438,501,938,1087],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-h","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}