{"id":15513,"date":"2023-02-12T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15513"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:41:43","slug":"aftersun-2022-charlotte-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15513","title":{"rendered":"Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a squishy film, because there are dreams and visions, unexplained (inexplicable?) actions and motivations &#8211; and that&#8217;s probably the point, that memory is imperfect or that her dad is unknowable.  95% young Sophie on a lazy beach vacation with divorced\/troubled dad Paul Mescal (<em>Normal People<\/em>) and 5% older Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall) in her apartment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/aftersun.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/ryknight\/film\/aftersun\/\">RW Knight<\/a>: &#8220;No answers, because life isn&#8217;t solvable like that; things just happen, meaning accrues &#8230; What&#8217;s important is feeling adrift, a prisoner of time collapsing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/preston\/film\/aftersun\/\">Preston<\/a>: &#8220;One wonders what the film is building up to &#8211; violence? disappointment? just cringe in general? &#8211; but its trump card is that the girl is so accepting, or not exactly accepting but too caught up in surveying the world around her &#8230; to engage in the usual third-act histrionics; all she really wants is a dad, which he&#8217;s able to supply intermittently, a low-stakes reserve that&#8217;s very touching.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a squishy film, because there are dreams and visions, unexplained (inexplicable?) actions and motivations &#8211; and that&#8217;s probably the point, that memory is imperfect or that her dad is unknowable. 95% young Sophie on a lazy beach vacation with divorced\/troubled dad Paul Mescal (Normal People) and 5% older Sophie (Celia Rowlson-Hall) in her apartment. [&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":[2643,3083,131,3084],"class_list":["post-15513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-charlotte-wells","tag-memory","tag-paul-mescal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513","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=15513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15550,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15513\/revisions\/15550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}