{"id":17024,"date":"2024-12-13T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17024"},"modified":"2024-12-12T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:06:57","slug":"boy-1969-nagisa-oshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17024","title":{"rendered":"Boy (1969, Nagisa Oshima)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy lives with an adoptive family of scam artists, the parents both Oshima regulars (she&#8217;s the criminal&#8217;s wife in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7294\">Violence at Noon<\/a><\/em>, he&#8217;s an officer in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2395\">Death by Hanging<\/a><\/em>).  They earn money by having the kid and mom Curly-Sue passing cars then shaking down the drivers.  This life doesn&#8217;t bring Boy happiness so he&#8217;s hoarding his allowance to afford a train ticket out of town, but the others catch up, and carry on until one of their crashes proves fatal and a suspicious driver reports them.  Kind of a true-crime story, adapted from news stories, and predicting a bunch of Kore-eda films.  The Boy is really good but his lines are so post-dubbed that it sounds like he&#8217;s a talking doll having his string pulled.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/boy1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/boy2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Boy didn&#8217;t act again, but grew up to be Morrissey:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/boy3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy lives with an adoptive family of scam artists, the parents both Oshima regulars (she&#8217;s the criminal&#8217;s wife in Violence at Noon, he&#8217;s an officer in Death by Hanging). They earn money by having the kid and mom Curly-Sue passing cars then shaking down the drivers. This life doesn&#8217;t bring Boy happiness so he&#8217;s hoarding [&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":[410,2081,36,873,1774],"class_list":["post-17024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-car-crash","tag-japan","tag-nagisa-oshima","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024","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=17024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17080,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17024\/revisions\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}