{"id":4988,"date":"2024-01-21T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:29:51","slug":"film-review-lucky-jim-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Lucky Jim, 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"366\" height=\"272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5198.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5062\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5198.jpg 366w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5198-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/stars_07_threehalf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5061\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/stars_07_threehalf.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/stars_07_threehalf-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As daft as this is, and as annoying as I found a good deal of it, it almost\/kind of comes good in the end. Just about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I\u2019m realising that whilst some films from this era have aged superbly (from <em>Kind Hearts &amp; Coronets <\/em>to<em> Went The Day Well<\/em>?, plucking just two from the aether), others haven\u2019t. And the comedies of the Boultings quite often, it seems to me, to fall into this latter category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"394\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5199.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5063\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5199.jpg 394w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_5199-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Based on this Amis novel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Carmichael plays the titular role, and is a teacher \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm!? As daft as this is, and as annoying as I found a good deal of it, it almost\/kind of comes good in the end. Just about. I think I\u2019m realising that whilst some films from this era have aged superbly (from Kind Hearts &amp; Coronets to Went The Day Well?, plucking just two from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Review: Lucky Jim, 1957&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}