{"id":315,"date":"2025-10-27T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:35:00","slug":"the-desperately-sad-story-of-the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"The Desperately Sad Story of the Most Beautiful Boy in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/13478\/the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world-film-documentary-review-interview?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=the-desperately-sad-story-of-the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/410\/1\/411281.jpeg\" alt=\"Bjorn_and_Visconti_Shooting_Morte_A_Venezia_Copyri\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on 29 July 2021.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a grisly scene mid-way through the pagan horror <em>Midsommar<\/em>, a commune elder with long grey hair and a wispy beard launches himself off a cliff and crumples onto the rocks below. Barely alive, his fellow cult members take turns to smash his face in with a giant mallet. It\u2019s an easter-egg of a casting choice, because 50 years ago, that face \u2013 now weathered and gaunt but still startlingly arresting \u2013 was declaredhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/13478\/the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world-film-documentary-review-interview?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-desperately-sad-story-of-the-most-beautiful-boy-in-the-world\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published on 29 July 2021.\u00a0 In a grisly scene mid-way through the pagan horror Midsommar, a commune elder with long grey hair and a wispy beard launches himself off a cliff and crumples onto the rocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}