{"id":14497,"date":"2021-09-26T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2021-09-26T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:19:37","slug":"days-2020-tsai-ming-liang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14497","title":{"rendered":"Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee is taking it easy, getting treatments for a bad back, which includes having Anong give him a happy-ending massage in a hotel room.  Anong seems touched by the gift of a music box, the two grab a meal together.  Even less happens in 2+ hours than in Tsai&#8217;s <em>Walker<\/em> shorts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/days1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been counting shots but lost track when I had to pause for a meal &#8211; surely fewer than 100 total.  Shot #9 was food prep, not a great camera setup but I learned a new method of shredding green papayas.  Shot #20 the camera moves through an alley!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/days2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cinema Scope&#8217;s pick for movie of the year.  Blake Williams&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-scope.com\/cinema-scope-magazine\/a-state-of-uncertainty-tsai-ming-liang-on-days\/\">writeup<\/a> ties it to Tsai&#8217;s earliest films with Lee, which I still haven&#8217;t watched, so I&#8217;m lacking some context, but I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m in the headspace where a movie this meditative is gonna be a high favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee is taking it easy, getting treatments for a bad back, which includes having Anong give him a happy-ending massage in a hotel room. Anong seems touched by the gift of a music box, the two grab a meal together. Even less happens in 2+ hours than in Tsai&#8217;s Walker shorts. I&#8217;d been counting shots [&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":[2643,2829,427,206],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-slow-cinema","tag-taiwan","tag-tsai-ming-liang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","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=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14510,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions\/14510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}