{"id":14364,"date":"2021-08-05T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14364"},"modified":"2021-08-05T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:50:53","slug":"the-hand-2004-wong-kar-wai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14364","title":{"rendered":"The Hand (2004, Wong Kar-Wai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I half-remembered this from watching <em>Eros<\/em> at the Landmark way back then, and the new remaster gives us a good excuse to revisit.  Gong Li is a high-class call girl, whose life\/career hits a rocky patch, then she has to move into a dank moldy place and gets the croup.  Chen Chang is her devoted tailor in good times and bad.  Besides all the perfect costuming and sumptuous dim-light photography, highlight is a scene of erotic dumpling stuffing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/hand1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/hand2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/hand3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>There&#8217;s Only One Sun<\/em> (2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Found this short, nonsensical spy drama on vimeo, with horrid video compression compared to <em>The Hand<\/em> blu-ray.  It&#8217;s a commissioned television ad that culminates in Am\u00e9lie Daure of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1077\">Frontier(s)<\/a><\/em> making out with her flatscreen.  Before that, there&#8217;s some talk off finding an untraceable person(?) named The Light, a flashback structure, a couple murders &#8211; that&#8217;s a lot for Wong, who likes to let his camera linger, to pull off in eight minutes.  Mostly it seems designed to show the brightest colors possible, bleeding into each other, to impress the rubes when the brightness is cranked up at the Best Buy video wall.  No need for too many new ideas &#8211; songs are reused from the <em>2046<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/hand4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/hand5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I half-remembered this from watching Eros at the Landmark way back then, and the new remaster gives us a good excuse to revisit. Gong Li is a high-class call girl, whose life\/career hits a rocky patch, then she has to move into a dank moldy place and gets the croup. Chen Chang is her devoted [&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":[369,2115,195,32,21,142],"class_list":["post-14364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-chen-chang","tag-gong-li","tag-hong-kong","tag-shorts","tag-wong-kar-wai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364","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=14364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14372,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14364\/revisions\/14372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}