{"id":14810,"date":"2022-02-10T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:58:39","slug":"old-2021-m-night-shyamalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14810","title":{"rendered":"Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer M. Night doing good work with the premise, not so good with the dialogue and details – and Director M. Night just going to town with the photography. Love the roving wide-angle long takes especially, but the whole thing looks ravishing. DP Michael Gioulakis also shot Us<\/a><\/em> and It Follows<\/a><\/em> and Under the Silver Lake<\/a><\/em>, and is currently one of my favorite people.<\/p>\n

AKA Old Beach: The Beach That Makes People Old<\/em>, but most of them die one-by-one from various misfortunes, only Gael and Vicky make it to cute-elderly status. Dr. Rufus Sewell goes mad, or was mad from the start, and stabs Underground Railroad<\/em> star Aaron Pierre before Vicky gives him fast-action blood poisoning. Sewell’s wife Abbey Lee (one of the Fury Road<\/a><\/em> wives) has brittle bones and dies in agony chasing the kids through a cave. Ken Leung (cop in Saw<\/em>) simply drowns trying to escape. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Jupiter Ascending<\/a><\/em>) has fatal seizures, funny since the mad scientists studying curative drugs in unwilling time-accelerated test subjects call her case a success. The kids are more complicated since they’re played by multiple actors, but most notably by siblings Alex “Hereditary<\/a><\/em>” Wolff and Thomasin “Soho<\/a><\/em>” McKenzie, and as Alex’s short-lived girlfriend: Beth March of Little Women<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Adam Nayman<\/a> sums up my pleasure in talking about a different film: “The fun of Malignant<\/a><\/em> is watching Wan apply such sophisticated technique to ridiculously dumb material.” Also wrote down a line from Social Hygiene<\/a><\/em> the next night: “Stupid and useless things are often the most beautiful.” Great movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer M. Night doing good work with the premise, not so good with the dialogue and details – and Director M. Night just going to town with the photography. Love the roving wide-angle long takes especially, but the whole thing looks ravishing. DP Michael Gioulakis also shot Us and It Follows and Under the Silver […]<\/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":[2643,638,267,2129],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-m-night-shyamalan","tag-time","tag-time-lapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","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=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14845,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions\/14845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}