{"id":3381,"date":"2014-03-14T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:08:21","slug":"slap-the-monster-on-the-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/slap-the-monster-on-the-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Slap the Monster on the Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3798\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/53156-slap-the-monster-on-page-one.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3798\" alt=\"Slap the Monster on the Front Page\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/53156-slap-the-monster-on-page-one.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/53156-slap-the-monster-on-page-one.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/53156-slap-the-monster-on-page-one-59x88.jpg 59w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slap the Monster on the Front Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of years after playing a corrupt, evangelically right wing, borderline sociopathic cop in <strong>Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion<\/strong>, Gian Maria Volonte played a corrupt, evangelically right wing, borderline sociopathic newspaper editor in <strong>Slap the Monster on the Front Page<\/strong>. He&#8217;s Bizanti, the top dog at Milanese paper Il Giornale, who&#8217;s always on the lookout for new ways of justifying the publication of anti-communist, anti-youth, anti-working class rhetoric. And he sees a great opportunity for more of this nonsense when a young anarchist is named as the likeliest suspect in the murder of his attractive and thoroughly middle-class ex-girlfriend. So he works with the police to ensure this poor sap&#8217;s conviction, plastering accusations on the front page and blaming it all on the increasingly liberal modern society&#8230; even though he knows full well that he isn&#8217;t the real killer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a surprisingly short film, which is good because it ensures that the pace is maintained even though it&#8217;s dialogue heavy and regularly veers\u00a0into then-trendy political diatribe. The photography is wonderful and Marco Bellochio&#8217;s direction is efficient. Volonte contributes a powerhouse performance, but even so it&#8217;s not as memorable or impressive a film as <strong>Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion<\/strong>\u00a0(which it seems to have been partially inspired by).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slap the Monster on the Front Page is a political thriller from Marco Bellochio starring Gian Maria Volonte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[994,1066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}