{"id":16691,"date":"2024-08-27T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16691"},"modified":"2024-08-26T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:40:46","slug":"evil-does-not-exist-2023-ryusuke-hamaguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16691","title":{"rendered":"Evil Does Not Exist (2023, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely and not mysterious at all until suddenly it is.  The community responds to a tourism company: &#8220;The very essence of this village is at stake.&#8221;  The company has sent a couple of know-nothing PR types &#8211; main dude Takumi pokes holes in their plan but also drives them around and indulges the guy&#8217;s desire to do manly backwoods things like chop wood.  Then Takumi&#8217;s daughter goes missing, and the PR dude must be killed to maintain nature&#8217;s balance (I guess).  No big stars &#8211; the woman who runs the local noodle shop and wants to maintain the water quality for her broth costarred in <em>Happy Hour<\/em>.  Hamaguchi reveals in Cinema Scope that it was put together rather experimentally, says his own perspective is usually closer to the invading PR people than the rural residents. <\/p>\n<p><em>The PR people surprised to hear they have to protect their grounds from deer:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/evilexist1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The deer they never considered:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/evilexist2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely and not mysterious at all until suddenly it is. The community responds to a tourism company: &#8220;The very essence of this village is at stake.&#8221; The company has sent a couple of know-nothing PR types &#8211; main dude Takumi pokes holes in their plan but also drives them around and indulges the guy&#8217;s desire [&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":[2643,36,2615,283],"class_list":["post-16691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-japan","tag-ryusuke-hamaguchi","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691","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=16691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16724,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16691\/revisions\/16724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}