{"id":10640,"date":"2020-02-04T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T02:47:03","slug":"jumbo-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/04\/jumbo-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumbo @ Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-wild-sundance-movie-about-a-woman-who-sexes-a-theme-park-ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Wild Sundance Movie About a Woman in Love With a Theme-Park Ride<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The lyrical French Sundance indie \u201cJumbo\u201d focuses on a little-known condition called objectophilia in which people develop romantic feelings for inanimate objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/natalia-winkelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natalia Winkelman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JUMBO Trailer VF\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yIAaymRWRaM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jumbo<\/em>\u00a0may be among the first narrative films to focus on objectophilia\u2014or romantic attraction to inanimate objects\u2014but there have been enough TLC segments on the condition to at least half-absorb one\u2019s attention through a very long flight. Perhaps the most famous of these cases is Erika Eiffel, an Olympic archer who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OnEj71n3-R4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">married the Eiffel Tower in 2004<\/a>. In the media, Eiffel\u2019s case was rarely taken seriously, surveyed instead with raised eyebrows and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-reality-series-extreme-love-takes-kink-shaming-to-a-whole-new-level\">punny punchlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eiffel\u2019s story was also the inspiration behind\u00a0<em>Jumbo<\/em>, which approaches its object romance\u2014between a theme park worker named Jeanne and a ride named Jumbo\u2014with far greater curiosity and generosity than they\u2019re so often granted. The film is writer-director Zo\u00e9 Wittock\u2019s debut feature, and it\u2019s an impressively realized study, nailing a tricky tone without judging or fetishizing its subject. It\u2019s also a gorgeous film visually, full of dimly lit sequences punctuated with swirls of vibrant color. Throughout, the story spins on an axis of vigorous subjectivity; from its vivid opening shot, in which Jeanne (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-a-lesbian-movie-masterpiece-that-explodes-the-male-gaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Portrait of a Lady on Fire<\/em>\u2019s<\/a>dazzling No\u00e9mie Merlant) stands in a field gazing at the ride, we\u2019re acutely aware that what we\u2019re about to experience belongs to her and her alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-wild-sundance-movie-about-a-woman-who-sexes-a-theme-park-ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast The Wild Sundance Movie About a Woman in Love With a Theme-Park Ride The lyrical French Sundance indie \u201cJumbo\u201d focuses on a little-known condition called objectophilia in which people develop romantic feelings for inanimate objects. by Natalia Winkelman Jumbo\u00a0may be among the first narrative films to focus on objectophilia\u2014or romantic attraction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}