{"id":16511,"date":"2024-06-17T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16511"},"modified":"2024-06-16T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T21:04:13","slug":"suzhou-river-2000-lou-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16511","title":{"rendered":"Suzhou River (2000, Lou Ye)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strange one, a noirish story-in-a-story about a bagman who gets friendly with the young girl he&#8217;s driving around, the narrators possibly making up the story as they go.   It all leads to kidnapping and murder and suicide and mermaids.  I chose this one because the director (who also made <em>Saturday Fiction<\/em> with Gong Li and <em>Purple Butterfly<\/em> with Zhang Ziyi) had a new film at Cannes, which unfortunately nobody liked.  The bagman also starred in Wang Xiaoshuai&#8217;s <em>Frozen<\/em>, and Zhou Xun (who played the girl and the other girl) was in Wang&#8217;s <em>Beijing Bicycle<\/em> and also Tsui Hark&#8217;s <em>Dragon Inn<\/em> sequel (not <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16483\">his <em>Dragon Inn<\/em> remake<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>The bagman and his charge:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/suzhou1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The narrator&#8217;s girlfriend:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/suzhou2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange one, a noirish story-in-a-story about a bagman who gets friendly with the young girl he&#8217;s driving around, the narrators possibly making up the story as they go. It all leads to kidnapping and murder and suicide and mermaids. I chose this one because the director (who also made Saturday Fiction with Gong Li [&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":[369,200,1195,3273,2045,607],"class_list":["post-16511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-china","tag-kidnapping","tag-lou-ye","tag-mermaid","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511","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=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16544,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}