{"id":1981,"date":"2010-06-28T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:19:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-28T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T00:43:50","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1981\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Eighteen&#8221; by Jang Kun-Jae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5pt 10px 5px 0pt; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/eighteen.jpg\"><\/img> Once again on the purpose and role of fiction. Whether it is about a book or a movie, or whatever else.<\/p>\n<p>This is the movie that won the prize at a local festival about independent and experimental movies. The translation of the motivations of the prize:<\/p>\n<p><i>With his feature-length debut movie the young Korean director Jang Kun-jae transforms a private page of his sentimental education into a fresh, pleasant and audaciously sincere tale. The pain, melancholy, helplessness of a small amorous catastrophe narrated through the fond vertigo of a lost age, not yet removed from his memory. For the two protagonists of the story being eighteen represents the most lacerating of the seasons of life. The first act of a past that can&#8217;t be left behind. A past that one can let go through the therapy of cinema.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My comment: take <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Mood_for_Love\">&#8220;In the Mood for Love&#8221;<\/a> by Wong Kar-wai. This is an unpretentious adolescent version, extremely blunt and sincere, yet delicate. It leaves you with a similar kind of hollow, haunting feeling. Also, a real story.<\/p>\n<p>Another journey in the search for meaning. These types of movies can really stab through your heart and leave it bleeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again on the purpose and role of fiction. Whether it is about a book or a movie, or whatever else. This is the movie that won the prize at a local festival about independent and experimental movies. The translation of the motivations of the prize: With his feature-length debut movie the young Korean director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}