{"id":38549,"date":"2023-01-15T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38549"},"modified":"2023-01-15T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T20:01:56","slug":"the-spinning-man-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/15\/the-spinning-man-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spinning Man (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Jordan Rosenbloom\u2019s \u201cThe Spinning Man\u201d is what I\u2019d call \u201cThe Conversation\u201d if it were set in the post apocalypse. It spotlights the less sensational side that\u2019s never explored in post apocalypse fiction, and it\u2019s the paranoia that comes from surviving and surviving in a world where resources are dwindling fast.<\/p>\n

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Travis Mitchell stars as Stan the Spinning Man, a lone survivor in his small house who spends his days broadcasting his own radio show amidst a post apocalyptic wasteland. When he\u2019s not doing that, he looks for other activities which include fighting off roaches and eating nothing but clam chowder. One day a new voice pops up on Stan\u2019s radio who is anxious to meet him, but Stan isn\u2019t too sure he can trust him. Eventually the two begin to clash as Stan\u2019s more reserved nature is interrupted by the voice\u2019s aggression and eagerness to meet him.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s worse is he seems to have knowledge of what Stan has been doing in his house. Who is this voice? Are Sam\u2019s mental faculties deteriorating? Did Stan make up a rival in his head? Is Stan really as healthy as he thinks he is? And if the voice is a real person can they be trusted? Can anyone be trusted? Why does the voice seem to know what Stan is eating to stay alive? \u201cThe Spinning Man\u201d props up a lot of questions for the viewer, but also builds a healthy ambiguity that will leave us interpreting much of what we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

The shifts between sleep and dreams also leave a lot of what we\u2019re seeing absolutely fuzzy, as we can never really be sure what Stan is imagining or experiencing in reality. There\u2019s not a lot told about what the world is Stan is living in, only that it\u2019s definitely not safe outside, and that Stan is gambling on meeting this person. They could be the companionship that he needs, or they could be his worst nightmare. \u201cThe Spinning Man\u201d is a thought provoking and creepy tale about the end of the world and isolation, and one that definitely taps in to themes we don\u2019t often see in this kind of fiction.<\/p>\n

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Director Jordan Rosenbloom\u2019s \u201cThe Spinning Man\u201d is what I\u2019d call \u201cThe Conversation\u201d if it were set in the post apocalypse. It spotlights the less sensational side that\u2019s never explored in post apocalypse fiction, and it\u2019s the paranoia that comes from surviving and surviving in a world where resources are dwindling fast.<\/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":[501,794,906,938,1087],"class_list":["post-38549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-indie-film","tag-post-apocalypse","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38549","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=38549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38552,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38549\/revisions\/38552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}