{"id":12614,"date":"2018-05-06T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12614"},"modified":"2018-05-05T16:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:43:57","slug":"columbus-2017-kogonada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12614","title":{"rendered":"Columbus (2017, Kogonada)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely little almost-romance set in an Indiana town with unusually interesting architecture.  A few familiar indie-drama tropes collide as a guy who has escaped his family has to return when his dad falls deathly ill (the twist being it&#8217;s not his hometown, but a place he doesn&#8217;t know), meeting a girl with smarts and ambition who feels compelled to stay home and care for her addict mother.  Jin (John Cho) claims not to be interested in architecture, but his dad&#8217;s an expert and Casey (Haley Lu Richardson: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12311\">Split<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11652\">The Edge of Seventeen<\/a><\/em>) is fascinated, so Jin helps her realize her goals while she keeps him company during his Columbus purgatory stay.  It kinda sounds like nothing special when writing out a description, but the movie&#8217;s particular carefully-framed look and feel (David Ehrlich described it as <em>Garden State<\/em> meets Ozu) set it above the usual Sundance fare.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/columbus1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/columbus2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely little almost-romance set in an Indiana town with unusually interesting architecture. A few familiar indie-drama tropes collide as a guy who has escaped his family has to return when his dad falls deathly ill (the twist being it&#8217;s not his hometown, but a place he doesn&#8217;t know), meeting a girl with smarts and [&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":[1049,1630,2430,2429,2428],"class_list":["post-12614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-architecture","tag-indiana","tag-john-cho","tag-kogonada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614","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=12614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}