{"id":13172,"date":"2019-10-20T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2019-10-20T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:08:13","slug":"mysterious-object-at-noon-2000-apichatpong-weerasethakul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13172","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mutating fiction containing documentary-like scenes &#8211; unlike his other films, which sometimes have people playing versions of themselves but would never be confused for docs &#8211; the fictional part being written by the doc participants as the movie goes along.  There is a teacher named Dogfahr, a crippled alien boy, and lots of transformations.<\/p>\n<p><em>The woman who gives the film its title:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/mystobject1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The last major work I&#8217;d never seen by A.W., unless anyone wants to argue for <em>The Adventures of Iron Pussy<\/em>.  It&#8217;s unique, but not one of my faves.  Why do the closing credits appear 10 minutes before the end of the movie, then just shots of young kids playing?  &#8220;The woman turned into a tiger&#8221;, a precursor to <em>Tropical Malady<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image19\/mystobject2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Lim for Criterion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mysterious Object at Noon<\/em> revels in the myriad ways a story can be transmitted. A performance troupe acts out its segment in a traditional song-and-dance routine. A pair of deaf girls use sign language. Sometimes we watch and listen to the narrators as they concoct new installments; sometimes we see their fabulations dramatized, occasionally with voice-over or intertitles to move things along. The scenario grows at once darker and more absurd as it progresses, its lurid developments living up to the film&#8217;s pulpy Thai title, <em>Dogfahr in the Devil&#8217;s Hand<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mutating fiction containing documentary-like scenes &#8211; unlike his other films, which sometimes have people playing versions of themselves but would never be confused for docs &#8211; the fictional part being written by the doc participants as the movie goes along. There is a teacher named Dogfahr, a crippled alien boy, and lots of transformations. [&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":[369,712,1041,864,1027],"class_list":["post-13172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-aliens","tag-apichatpong-weerasethakul","tag-storytelling","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172","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=13172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13210,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions\/13210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}