{"id":42135,"date":"2018-02-20T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=42135"},"modified":"2018-02-21T06:51:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:51:45","slug":"the-white-orchid-steve-anderson-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=42135","title":{"rendered":"The White Orchid (Steve Anderson): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/thirlby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42137\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/thirlby-325x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/thirlby-325x183.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/thirlby-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/thirlby.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Ryan Rullman. Viewed at the Metro 4, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>T he film stars (Olivia Thirlby) from <em>Juno\u00a0<\/em>as Claire a young investigator of a gruesome murder.<\/p>\n<p>H ints in this film are revealed but has a lot of twist and turns through Claire&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>E ntering the murder victims house we find that she had a love for luxurious, and many wigs.<\/p>\n<p>W e acknowledge the use of mise-en-scene, the famous Morro Bay rock and intense close ups.<\/p>\n<p>H ouse of the victim Jessica, has this innocent yet gloomy feel which adds to the cinematography.<\/p>\n<p>I deology depicted in this film, <em>don&#8217;t cry because its over, smile because it happened<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>T hemes that are reoccurring, include the cell phone rings, the waves, wigs, and the white orchid.<\/p>\n<p>E diting of this film is well done with a score that fits the murder thriller aspect of the overall film.<\/p>\n<p>O riginality in the direction of the script, keeping you on the edge of your seat the entire duration.<\/p>\n<p>R epetition of these motifs in the film have you engage into the film with multiple questions.<\/p>\n<p>C inematography that is top notch of Morro bay with beautiful drone and establishing shots.<\/p>\n<p>H er ambitions to finish the murder case, make Claire live though Jessica&#8217;s persona.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed watching this new thriller noir at film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>D irected with outstanding cinematography capturing the heart of Morro Bay, by Steve Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Ryan Rullman. Viewed at the Metro 4, Santa Barbara. T he film stars (Olivia Thirlby) from Juno\u00a0as Claire a young investigator of a gruesome murder. H ints in this film are revealed but has a lot of twist and turns through Claire&#8217;s investigation. E ntering the murder victims house we find that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/233826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}