{"id":12084,"date":"2017-06-03T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2017-06-01T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:36:44","slug":"children-who-chase-lost-voices-2011-makoto-shinkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12084","title":{"rendered":"Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011, Makoto Shinkai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AKA <em>Journey to Agartha<\/em>&#8230; anime adventure story, which gets into some grand life-and-death mythology and re-enacts <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6277\">Orpheus<\/a><\/em>&#8230; it didn&#8217;t exactly pull all of its component parts into a coherent whole, and it lacked the emotional impact of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11986\">Your Name<\/a><\/em>, but was full of incident and beautiful light and backdrops and fantastical beasts, so I have no major complaints.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/agartha1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Asuna has a pet cat, working mom, dead father, and no particular characteristics.  One day she meets an underworld boy who saves her from a giant creature then promptly dies.  Soon she travels to his land along with her cat, the dead boy&#8217;s twin brother, and her homicidally bereaved super-soldier substitute teacher, who plans to descend into the land of the dead with a magic crystal and a submachine gun and demand the resurrection of his late wife.  It&#8217;s kind of a crazypants movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/agartha2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also, the cat dies and is eaten by a Quetzalcoatl.  And so are our heroes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/agartha3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Shinkai&#8217;s third feature (<em>Your Name<\/em> is his fifth).  Our copy was English dubbed, which seemed just fine, but the commentary is in subtitled Japanese, so I can&#8217;t really play it while working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKA Journey to Agartha&#8230; anime adventure story, which gets into some grand life-and-death mythology and re-enacts Orpheus&#8230; it didn&#8217;t exactly pull all of its component parts into a coherent whole, and it lacked the emotional impact of Your Name, but was full of incident and beautiful light and backdrops and fantastical beasts, so I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,266,418,36,2268,587],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-cats","tag-death","tag-japan","tag-makoto-shinkai","tag-orpheus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}