{"id":244,"date":"2014-06-23T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2024-03-09T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:13:27","slug":"passion-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Passion-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passion-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Brian De Palma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #58<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70257722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1211\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70257722-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70257722\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70257722-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70257722.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 23, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Passion (2012) is a must-see for all Brian De Palma fans, Carrie (1976), and Dressed to Kill (1980).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the film received little fanfare and is mostly forgotten, but it deserves a viewing.<\/p>\n<p>The film is set in the world of advertising, where backstabbing and scheming are commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel McAdams stars as an executive who steals her assistant\u2019s (Noomi Rapace) ideas regularly. Fed up, the assistant plots revenge.<\/p>\n<p>McAdams is delicious as the callous, calculating, little girl over her head in the corporate world.<\/p>\n<p>The praise goes to DePalma, though, for creating yet another stylistic gem similar in tone to many of his other successful films.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is almost secondary to the direction- twists and turns, and cool camera angles make the film an enjoyable experience. A common DePalma trait is a dreamlike feel which I love in his films.<\/p>\n<p>The ending is a direct homage to Dressed to Kill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passion-2012 Director Brian De Palma Starring Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace Scott&#8217;s Review #58 Reviewed June 23, 2014 Grade: A Passion (2012) is a must-see for all Brian De Palma fans, Carrie (1976), and Dressed to Kill (1980). Unfortunately, the film received little fanfare and is mostly forgotten, but it deserves a viewing. The film is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passion-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,154,3722,2855,204],"tags":[75,155,3723,2857,258],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-briandepalmafilms","category-noomi-rapace","category-rachel-mcadams","category-thrillers","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-brian-de-palma-films","tag-noomi-rapace","tag-rachel-mcadams","tag-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20001,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/20001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}