{"id":24520,"date":"2017-03-02T02:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24520"},"modified":"2017-03-02T02:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:50:18","slug":"cauliflower-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/cauliflower-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Cauliflower (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/caulflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/caulflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/caulflower.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/caulflower-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/caulflower-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Director-Writer Phoebe Torres\u2019 short \u201cCauliflower\u201d plays out like a skit from a comedy show, and that\u2019s not at all meant to be a slight since it\u2019s a damn funny short film, that also conveys a full narrative in under five minutes. It\u2019s weird how much the fear of looking ignorant can often turn us in to clowns nevertheless, but Torres has a great sense of capturing how sometimes we\u2019d rather feign knowledge no matter how stupid we look, than not admit to ignorance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCauliflower\u201d has a deceptively simple premise that makes a fun commentary about human behavior. Young Lindsey is throwing a dinner party for her three friends. After announcing their main courses, she explains to them that they\u2019re also having cauliflower and ironically they have no idea what that is. Despite obviously not knowing, they insist they\u2019ve had it and persist on committing to the lie so aggressively that it becomes incredibly ridiculous. Torres\u2019 fast paced editing and hilarious writing make \u201cCauliflower\u201d a sharply comic and weird slice of life.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no filler or flab in her film, as every line and moment has a significance to intended joke at hand. What also helps is the ace comic timing from the entire cast, all of whom are laugh out loud funny. Director Phoebe Torres directs a fine quick comedy that ends on a hilarious note as well as an epilogue that kept me grinning from ear to ear. I\u2019d love to see what director Phoebe Torres can do with a longer form comedy down the line, because if \u201cCauliflower\u201d is any indication, we\u2019re in for something completely out of the ordinary and hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director-Writer Phoebe Torres\u2019 short \u201cCauliflower\u201d plays out like a skit from a comedy show, and that\u2019s not at all meant to be a slight since it\u2019s a damn funny short film, that also conveys a full narrative in under five minutes. It\u2019s weird how much the fear of looking ignorant can often turn us in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,501,938],"class_list":["post-24520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520","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=24520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24522,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24520\/revisions\/24522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}