{"id":15856,"date":"2023-09-02T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15856"},"modified":"2023-09-01T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T19:02:13","slug":"a-land-imagined-2018-siew-hua-yeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15856","title":{"rendered":"A Land Imagined (2018, Siew Hua Yeo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-asian techno-capitalism noir.  Singapore construction slave-worker Wang is looking for his friend Ajit who disappeared after a late-night personal job for the boss, then mustache cop Lok is looking for Wang.  This is all observed by various bosses and spies, a hot computer-cafe girl (Guo Yue of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13113\">Kaili Blues<\/a><\/em>), and a gamer troll.  It&#8217;s hilarious that the movie&#8217;s blurb mentions a &#8220;mysterious video game&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s just a multiplayer shooter with headset chat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Computer Girl with Wang:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/landimag1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To quote the people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/5863-who-won-at-locarno\">David Hudson quoted<\/a>, it maybe &#8220;privileges style over coherence&#8221; and is &#8220;a tale buckling at the knees under all that symbolism and with at least one too many loose ends left dangling,&#8221; but makes a pretty cool watch on a weekday night.  Can&#8217;t believe Netflix bought this &#8211; they were a different beast in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Cop Stressed Out:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/landimag2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pan-asian techno-capitalism noir. Singapore construction slave-worker Wang is looking for his friend Ajit who disappeared after a late-night personal job for the boss, then mustache cop Lok is looking for Wang. This is all observed by various bosses and spies, a hot computer-cafe girl (Guo Yue of Kaili Blues), and a gamer troll. It&#8217;s hilarious [&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":[1049,2513,2411,92],"class_list":["post-15856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-disappearance","tag-singapore","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856","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=15856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15871,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions\/15871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}