{"id":26875,"date":"2017-11-07T21:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T02:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26875"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T02:44:42","slug":"the-lake-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/07\/the-lake-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lake (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-lake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-lake.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-lake-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-lake-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Michael Buie\u2019s \u201cThe Lake\u201d is a masterpiece of a short film. It\u2019s a beautiful, somber, and heartbreaking look at how the inevitability of our death doesn\u2019t mean we have to stop living life. I sat through the entirety of \u201cThe Lake\u201d with a teary eye, mainly because director and writer Michael Buie manages to convey the terror and confusion of being told you\u2019re about to die with pure brilliance. \u201cThe Lake\u201d is never exploitative or over saccharine, it\u2019s just about learning to make the most of the time we have in our life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Director and writer Buie plays Matt Streeter, a man nearing middle age who\u2019s just discovered he has aggressive lung cancer. Filled with immense terror, and sadness, he reflects on his life with his wife and daughters, and the unfairness of confronting his cancer as his wife still was recovering from losing her mother to stomach cancer a year before. Anxious to spare them the sight of his deterioration from cancer, Matt decides to go out to the lake house he and his family always vacationed, and take his life.<\/p>\n<p>Through that, he could spare his family the suffering, while also allowing them to collect life insurance. \u201cThe Lake\u201d has a lot of thoughts and emotions to fit in to fourteen minutes. While I would have loved to see this film stretched in to a feature length, thankfully the short format never hurts it. Right to the end, \u201cThe Lake\u201d feels like the goodbye letter of a dying man, and Buie doesn\u2019t just ponder on the pain of life, but how funny life can be when you least expect it. \u201cThe Lake\u201d is a wonderful short drama, and if you ever come across it, I highly suggested giving it a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Buie\u2019s \u201cThe Lake\u201d is a masterpiece of a short film. It\u2019s a beautiful, somber, and heartbreaking look at how the inevitability of our death doesn\u2019t mean we have to stop living life. I sat through the entirety of \u201cThe Lake\u201d with a teary eye, mainly because director and writer Michael Buie manages to convey [&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":[302,501,938],"class_list":["post-26875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875","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=26875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26877,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26875\/revisions\/26877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}