{"id":12679,"date":"2018-06-24T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2018-06-22T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T02:57:45","slug":"a-zed-two-noughts-1985-peter-greenaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12679","title":{"rendered":"A Zed &#038; Two Noughts (1985, Peter Greenaway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would make a good double-feature with <em>Dead Ringers<\/em>, another 1980&#8217;s movie about twin doctors who fall for the same woman.  In this one, Oliver and Oswald (twins, separated conjoined, I think Oliver is the blond one) are played by Eric and Brian Oswald (brothers, not twins) &#8211; zoologists studying animal behavior when their wives are killed in a car accident while being driven by Alba (Andr\u00e9a Ferr\u00e9ol of <em>La grande bouffe<\/em>, <em>The Last Metro<\/em>, <em>Street of No Return<\/em>).  They become increasingly obsessed with Alba, with each other, and with chaos and decay, freeing zoo animals and shooting time-lapse films of ever-larger dead ones.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/zoo1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/zoo2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>These three are surrounded by some suspicious characters: a woman called Venus (Frances Barber of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2054\">Secret Friends<\/a><\/em>) and a mad surgeon named Van Meegeren, who amputated Alba&#8217;s leg after the car crash and now wants to amputate the other leg.  She finally turns down the twins in favor of a new man who is also missing his legs &#8211; I think she dies at the end but not sure exactly why, and the brothers stage a suicide before the time-lapse camera to add their own decaying images to the collection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/zoo3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/zoo4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a bunch of weirdness from a plot description, but in practice it&#8217;s much weirder.  Obsessed with Vermeer, decay, snails, symmetry, doubles, the alphabet, fakes and missing limbs &#8211; with the great pulsing Nyman music, and always more than one thing happening per shot, each splendidly composed frame full of motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would make a good double-feature with Dead Ringers, another 1980&#8217;s movie about twin doctors who fall for the same woman. In this one, Oliver and Oswald (twins, separated conjoined, I think Oliver is the blond one) are played by Eric and Brian Oswald (brothers, not twins) &#8211; zoologists studying animal behavior when their wives [&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":[357,102,2081,1767,1829,735,544,607,2443,2129,1718],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-britain","tag-car-crash","tag-doubling","tag-missing-limb","tag-peter-greenaway","tag-snails","tag-suicide","tag-swan","tag-time-lapse","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","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=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}