{"id":5065,"date":"2024-06-23T12:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2024-06-23T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T17:25:08","slug":"a-few-thoughts-on-the-maranos-saving-zoe-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"A Few Thoughts on the Maranos\u2019 Saving Zo\u00eb, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>*Ahem*.  Well, I need to start blogging again, and this seems like as good as any place to start, soooooo&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Ahem*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I re-watched this moofie two days ago, and Goddamn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GODDAMN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, re-reading my first post on this flick, I said that this moofie would require multiple viewings and I was for sure correct.  I also noted correctly the references to Zoey Duetch.  What I did not notice were the references to Zooey Deschanel, but that&#8217;s kinda another story, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was right in watching this flick before the release of Laura&#8217;s debut album, since the two are fundamentally and bafflingly, if not shockingly, connected.  Also interesting are the many many references to the series <em>Star Vs. the Forces of Evil<\/em> that are liberally layered throughout the flick.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, tho.  Is there anything on Disney+ that <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> have references to the Maranos in it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And am I correct in thinking that &#8220;Zo\u00eb&#8221; here in <em>Saving Zo\u00eb<\/em> is a reference to the actress Zooey in <em>Franny and Zooey<\/em> from J.D. Salinger?  <em>I May be an Actress, but I Can&#8217;t Fake How I Feel<\/em>?  No kidding, Laura.  You don&#8217;t say!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I get it, now.  I mean&#8230; I think so.  It&#8217;s like&#8230; it&#8217;s still hazy, but the pieces are coming together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s like&#8230; I didn&#8217;t get it, at first.  Laura&#8217;s album, I mean.  I listened to it, and I liked it, but something escaped me.  I didn&#8217;t understand it on some level until I realized what it was that <em>I May be an Actress, but I Can&#8217;t Fake How I Feel<\/em> actually <em>is<\/em>.  I think&#8230; it&#8217;s an instruction manual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if it is, this would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was right 100% about the Marano family and their place in the Hollywood machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maranos are, um, Marranos, lol.  A kind of hidden nobility.  They are people who pretend to be basic and powerless (queue up Laura&#8217;s song) but they&#8217;re anything but.  They&#8217;re a &#8220;power behind the throne&#8221; type of family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This concept brings to mind to me the legends of kids and destinies being, *ahem*, <em>Switched at Birth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verrrrry interesting stuff, for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Ahem*. Well, I need to start blogging again, and this seems like as good as any place to start, soooooo&#8230; Well&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Wow. *Ahem*. Well, I re-watched this moofie two days ago, and Goddamn. GODDAMN. Well, re-reading my first post on this flick, I said that this moofie would require multiple viewings and I was for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}