{"id":12677,"date":"2018-06-19T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:01:04","slug":"millennium-actress-2001-satoshi-kon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12677","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Actress (2001, Satoshi Kon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aged film actress relates her life story to an interviewer and cameraman at her house.  She draws them into her memories so they appear to be watching\/filming her life from the sidelines, as she starts by explaining she only went into acting to locate a cute revolutionary artist she once met.  Chiyoko&#8217;s transformations and the stagings and transitions of the flashbacks are wonderful, sliding through Japanese history and cinema &#8211; the movie could&#8217;ve happily gone on like this for another hour.  Instead it has to wrap up, Chiyoko explaining that she didn&#8217;t need the boy, she just loved the pursuit, and the interviewer confessing that he&#8217;s a stalker from way back, and returns a memento he found during her studio years.  Satoshi Kon&#8217;s second feature after <em>Perfect Blue<\/em>; I&#8217;ve also seen <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/441\">Paprika<\/a><\/em>, and feel like his movies are good, but not getting why people think they&#8217;re the most amazing things in the whole world.  A few years after this movie, Kon made the series <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8995\">Paranoia Agent<\/a>, which is the most amazing thing in the whole world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/millenact1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/millenact2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aged film actress relates her life story to an interviewer and cameraman at her house. She draws them into her memories so they appear to be watching\/filming her life from the sidelines, as she starts by explaining she only went into acting to locate a cute revolutionary artist she once met. Chiyoko&#8217;s transformations 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":[369,96,132,36,1765],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-animation","tag-flashback","tag-japan","tag-satoshi-kon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","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=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12688,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}